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Re:Modern codecs like AV1 can bring better quality video to ... by skrowl on Sunday July 15, 2018 @11:14PM (#17538503)
The biggest downside is that your phone / tablet / etc can hardware decode h.264, and has to run h.265 or av1 decoding in software. As a result, your battery life gets killed when watching h.265 / av1.
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Re:Modern codecs like AV1 can bring better quality video to ... by snvzz on Monday July 16, 2018 @05:19AM (#17539818)
This is indeed a downside right now, but won't be once hardware support is in.

That's expected on new devices at some point next year.

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