Comment by alex_duf
14 hours ago
That's not at all how I read it.
They mentioned they delivered a software decoder on android first, then they also targeted web browsers (presumably through wasm). So out of these 30%, a good chunk of it is software not hardware.
That being said, it's a pretty compelling argument for phone and tv manufacturers to get their act together, as Apple has already done.
This is something that infuriates me to no end - companies forcing software decoding on my devices rather than shipping me a codec my device supports.
When I'm watching something on YouTube on my iPhone, they're usually shipping me something like VP9 video which requires a software decoder; on a sick day stuck in bed I can burn through ten percent of my battery in thirty minutes.
Meanwhile, if I'm streaming from Plex, all of my media is h264 or h265 and I can watch for hours on the same battery life.