Comment by jeroenhd
1 day ago
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?
1 day ago
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?
For the codec, sure. But there can always be more restrictions on the IP block, driver code, etc.
Yeah, and the main problem with HEVC/H265 is the patent encumbrance. Very odd, but hopefully it's just coming a bit later.
It started like that. But now there are at least 2 different patent pools that want rent.
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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.