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PS5, XBox One, Chromecast, iPhone, iPad, AppleTV support HEVC but not AV1.

And they represent a significant proportion of video consumption devices.



> PS5, XBox One

From https://netflixtechblog.com/bringing-av1-streaming-to-netfli...:

"Netflix has also partnered with YouTube to develop an open-source solution for an AV1 decoder on game consoles that utilizes the additional power of GPUs."


Which is one part of the problem.

But still today you can take an HEVC iPhone or GoPro video and watch it on your PS5 with full hardware encoding. This open source solution doesn't help with that.


Very very few people are probably interested in doing that.


Chrome runs on a fraction of those platforms...




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