Comment by FrostKiwi
18 hours ago
Thanks to libdav1d's [1] lovingly hand crafted SIMD ASM instructions it's actually possible to reasonably playback AV1 without hardware acceleration, but basically yes: From Snapdragon 8 onwards, Google Tensor G3 onwards, NVIDIA RTX 3000 series onwards. All relatively new .
It's possible without specific hardware acceleration, but murderous for mobile devices.
Even RISC-V vector assembly[0].
0. https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav1d/-/issues/435