Youtube basically defines what is called widely used, and on youtube it is iirc. Idk what instagram, tiktok, etc use, but youtube still gotta be the biggest video platform.

[–] nyan_kas@piefed.social 27 points 1 month ago

It‘s the default for Youtube, Netflix and most video conferencing software like Webex, if you‘re using somewhat up-to-date hardware. So I‘d say it‘s commonly used by now.

[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think I'm just getting old, but I thought AV1 was still new too. Do I even own any devices that can decode it? I'm not sure I've even got h265...

[–] deadcream@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

PC hardware has widely supported it for five years. If your GPU is from 2021 or newer it should support it. On phones situation is more complicated, Qualcomm and Mediatek has been stingy and restricted it only to their flagship socs. Idk if that had changed recently.

[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Right, okay, I definitely haven't bought a new computer in the past 5 years. I wonder if anyone has "how old is the average computer" percentiles, because I have a feeling most people haven't bought a new computer in the past 5 years, so it seems surprising to supercede a codec after so few years, but maybe I'm the weird one?

[–] deadcream@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It will take years more for it to get adopted by hardware and content vendors. However in order for that to happen the software needs to be available so that people can start to experiment with it. It's a chicken and egg situation.

[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

For sure, someone needs to build stuff. What feels weird to me is less that there's a new codec, but rather that it's so closely on the tails of AV1. There will only have been a few years of hardware that ever had AV1 but not AV2. Seems like they should be more spaced out? But maybe that's nuts.

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

even if the 'next generation' of gpu and cpu have av2 support baked-in, hardly anyone (with a budget to adhere to) will be able to afford it.

[–] deadcream@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

Cheap APUs will probably remain the only affordable option.