Future YouTube and Netflix content may require AV1 codec support
(Android Central)

Google is already starting to require Android TV devices to ship with support for AV1 decoding. What you need to know A new report suggests future content from both YouTube and Netflix will require AV1 decoding support. Google is reportedly already asking Android TV device makers to start adding support for AV1 on their gadgets launching later this year. AV1 is a royalty-free video coding format that also boasts significantly better compression than its competitors. AV1 has been the subject of much interest in recent years — at least as far as interest in obscurely technical topics like video encoding goes. And it`s also gaining support from many of the most prominent players in the tech space, with YouTube and Netflix both adding at least partial support on their platforms. The two biggest players in the video streaming space may soon also require devices to feature built-in hardware-accelerated decoding for AV1, at least according to a new press release by Synaptics. In an ...