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Comment by chii

14 hours ago

because device makers will not care for the DRM, but will care for the hardware decoder they need to decide to put into their devices to decode netflix videos. By ensuring this video codec is open, it benefits everybody else now, as this same device will now be able to hardware decode _more_ videos from different video providers, as well as make more video providers choose AV1.

Basically, a network effect for an open codec.

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csmpltn  12 hours ago

But they still need to decode the proprietary DRM before it can be fed to the hardware decoder... lol

  • cm2187  11 hours ago

    I think the point is that if you are not Netflix, you can use AV1 as most of your clients devices support hardware acceleration thanks to the big guys using AV1 themselves.

  • nevi-me  10 hours ago

    I struggle to follow your point. They still need to do that for any codec, and I would think that the DRM decryption would be using algorithms that might also be hardware accelerated.