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Please Stop Making Terrible GIFs (thereallo.dev)
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[–] 3 points 2 months 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

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months 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.

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