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A comment on YouTube moves to AV1 by default to the dismay of some Android users.

Re:YouTube moves to AV1 by default to the dismay of some And... by shmerl on Friday April 19, 2024 @05:16PM (#40091993)
A lot of Youtube videos I saw don't have AV1 option (check with yt-dlp --list-formats). So are they going to re-encode everything now?
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Re:YouTube moves to AV1 by default to the dismay of some And... by NewJazz on Friday April 19, 2024 @05:20PM (#40092026)
They might. Especially if they are popular.
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Re:YouTube moves to AV1 by default to the dismay of some And... by CottonMcKnight on Monday April 22, 2024 @06:18PM (#40123002)
It is a certainty that, some time in the future, the bandwidth cost of not re-encoding will exceed the one-time cost of re-encoding.

How far in the future probably informed this decision.

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