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Re:Modern codecs like AV1 can bring better quality video to ... by untog on Sunday July 15, 2018 @10:13PM (#17538295)
> mobile devices also do not necessarily need AV1 encode support anyway

I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss it - video chat is a great use case for an improved codec.

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Re:Modern codecs like AV1 can bring better quality video to ... by sjwright on Monday July 16, 2018 @12:43AM (#17538827)
It will come—once encoding silicon is available. Until then, phones will necessarily use whatever codec they have hardware encoding support for.
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