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@Koying, can you tell us if Kodi can support both 8-bit and 10-bit VP9 hardware decode via MediaCodec API on Android when the codec is exposed by Nvidia for this Tegra SoC?

No idea, someone will just have to try.
I personally doubt youtube would skip hevc to use vp9, but hey...

As I mentioned, Google encodes all videos in H.264, HEVC, and VP9 for maximum compatibility, the stream selected for playback depends on which user agent / web browser is detected:

http://www.animafelina.it/test-video-qua...s-youtube/

But what is interesting with VP9 is that they claim better quality at lower bit-rates, which I assume is why Google encode the VP9 streams at a lower bit-rate than HEVC as standard.

Again, VP9 is primary developed and promoted by Google, and YouTube is owned by Google, so why would they not prefer and promote VP9 before their competition that is HEVC?

Anyway, as VP9 is a royalty-free codec it does not cost Nvidia a dime to enable it, so they did, and they already use it in their YouTube app for 4K videos, question is if Kodi can too...?