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YouTube moves to AV1 by default to the dismay of some Android users (www.androidpolice.com)

submitted 7 months ago by AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Arif Dikici, who is a part of the Android Video and Image Codecs team at Google, recently announced on LinkedIn that Android will now use an AV1 decoder known as “libdav1d,” which was created by the team behind VLC.

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[–] magiccupcake@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Are they still using Mp3 for audio or have they switched to something more modern for that too?

[–] Supermariofan67@programming.dev 15 points 7 months ago

They've been using opus for probably around a decade at this point, and in fact YouTube was a pretty early adopter of it and had a large role in popularizing it

[–] Mazoku@lemmy.ml 14 points 7 months ago

Pretty sure they use opus

[–] Amir@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago

Opus and AAC