Qualcomm Snapdragon 8-series chipsets will not support the AV1 codec until 2023

[Redaktion]

AV1 is an emerging video codec increasingly adopted by companies in the content-streaming and entertainment space. They range from Samsung to Broadcom - but not Qualcomm, an OEM that has failed to support this form of decoding even in its top-end Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 SoC. Now, the company is touted to fix this - in the processor's successor.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Qualcomm-Snapdragon-8-series-chipsets-will-not-support-the-AV1-codec-until-2023.601863.0.html

[heffeque]

Well, it can decode using SW, but this is extremely dangerous for our democracy CPU power consuming, so not ideal by any standard.