Google has rolled out a new software-based decoder for AV1 to the vast majority of Android devices, and YouTube is using it.

Arif Dikici, Google's manager responsible for video and image codecs on Android, recently confirmed that the mobile operating system is getting an official, software-based AV1 decoder. Mountain ...

Google decided to switch to libdav1d as AV1 video decoder on Android, although its forced implementation on YouTube app caused some issues.