YouTube moves to AV1 by default to the dismay of some Android users

cmnybo , 1 month ago

That's going to get them a lot of complaints about choppy playback and high battery usage from anyone without a hardware AV1 decoder.

They should only enable it by default if the device has a hardware AV1 decoder.

BrikoX OP Mod , 1 month ago

That would require not only storing the video in every resolution, but also in both codecs for every resolution. By going with AV1, they're trying to reduce the cost of storage and bandwidth, not double it.