YouTube moves to AV1 by default to the dismay of some Android users

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Arif Dikici, who is a part of the Android Video and Image Codecs team at Google, recently announced on LinkedIn that Android will now use an AV1 decoder known as “libdav1d,” which was created by the team behind VLC.

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Reminder that all libaom versions are named after My Little Pony characters. Anytime you watch a video encoded in AV1 you are consuming My Little Pony content

I don't know if this is meant as a warning, or a "ha, fuck you!", or an attempt to spark outrage, or to make us all cozy inside.

I've never watched the shit so it's hard for me to tell.