Comment by twotwotwo
9 years ago
Yes, Google is developing a free AV1 HW decoder, as discussed near the end of this (interesting!) deck: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16699000)
9 years ago
Yes, Google is developing a free AV1 HW decoder, as discussed near the end of this (interesting!) deck: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16699000)
There is some interesting Q&A at the end of Pascal's talk. My schoolboy French is not fast enough to do a proper translation unfortunately. He was asked about parallel (software) decoding and I think the gist was he thought it would be a bit difficult because of the dependencies between region images.
https://parisvideotech.com/pvt-4-les-formats-et-codecs-du-fu...