Adding AV1 support.
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AV1 support.
AV1 is a relatively new video CODEC designed for web streaming, currently supported in a few apps.
I use elementary videos as my main video player but recently I couldn't manage to play AV1 videos due to the lack of the CODEC support where it only plays audio with black screen.
Adding AV1 support with something like dav1d would be a really great feature for the player and would allow a new range of videos to be played without the need of any external video player.
Programs that include AV1 support: VLC 3.0+, FFMPEG 4.0+, Mozilla Firefox 63+.
We are using GStreamer as underlying technology, if GStreamer supports AV1, so do we 🙂
AV1 is already supported by GStreamer in the "bad" plugins set, it should be available in next elementary OS major version