▲ 267 ▼ Please Stop Making Terrible GIFs (thereallo.dev) submitted 2 months ago by lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com to c/technology@lemmy.world 92 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] ink@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 months ago (2 children) Haha, ye$, for rea$on$, I'm $ure... :D permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago (1 child) I'm not sure demand for AV1 is enough to ship units Probably either laziness or they want to avoid software decoding in general for performance reasons permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Glitchvid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* I think that's a reasonable way to look at it. It's not the route I'd take, after all, the video tag in html supports specifying multiple sources (including different formats/encodings), and with full control of the stack (they vend Safari) you could have logic on devices without AV1 hardware that prefers the AVC/HEVC/VP9 sources instead — then fallback to AV1 SW if it's the only option. That seems a better user experience than just failing to display content. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago (1 child) I'm not sure demand for AV1 is enough to ship units Probably either laziness or they want to avoid software decoding in general for performance reasons permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Glitchvid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* I think that's a reasonable way to look at it. It's not the route I'd take, after all, the video tag in html supports specifying multiple sources (including different formats/encodings), and with full control of the stack (they vend Safari) you could have logic on devices without AV1 hardware that prefers the AVC/HEVC/VP9 sources instead — then fallback to AV1 SW if it's the only option. That seems a better user experience than just failing to display content. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Glitchvid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* I think that's a reasonable way to look at it. It's not the route I'd take, after all, the video tag in html supports specifying multiple sources (including different formats/encodings), and with full control of the stack (they vend Safari) you could have logic on devices without AV1 hardware that prefers the AVC/HEVC/VP9 sources instead — then fallback to AV1 SW if it's the only option. That seems a better user experience than just failing to display content. permalink fedilink source parent