> I'd also guess that a very large fraction of the hardware out there doesn't even have hardware decode for AV1 since it was only the last generation of GPUs th

> I'd also guess that a very large fraction of the hardware out there doesn't even have hardware decode for AV1 since it was only the last generation of GPUs that got that Don't underestimate dav1d. It's a highly optimized software AV1 decoder: https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav1d https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav1d On my nine year old system, 1080p60 AV1 video was unwatchable with early releases of dav1d due to too many dropped frames. Eventually dav1d got enough AVX optimizations to play the same video on the same hardware with zero dropped frames. It was an impressive demonstration of what can be achieved when software makes the most of the available hardware.