Comment by miyuru
1 day ago
> Hardware-accelerated video playback of H.264 (AVC), H.265 (HEVC) and VP9 video streams
> Hardware-accelerated video recording into H.264 (AVC) and H.265 (HEVC) formats
no mention of AV1? Surprised since most websites including YT uses it heavily.
The Qualcomm marketing spec sheet mentions AV1 decoding: https://www.qualcomm.com/content/dam/qcomm-martech/dm-assets...
Maybe that part of the driver isn't finished yet?
Yes. It is on the mailing list: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251001-av1_irisdecoder-v1-0-9f...
It actually introduces new things into the UAPI because no one else did fully-stateful AV1 decode before.
Or licensed.
Isn't the whole point of AV1 that it's royalty free, as opposed to H264/265/etc?
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AV1 is designed to be license free, so unless they outsourced their driver development to another company I don't think there's anything to license.