2020-10-01, 00:17
(2020-09-30, 23:01)RockerC Wrote: As I understand, the 'older' Amlogic S905X2 SoC/chipset in this dongle does not support AV1 hardware-accelerated video decoding.
YouTube has used AV1 for quite a while now, and Netflix recently started to stream in this format for compatible devices.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amlogic#Me...ily_gen_2)
https://www.cnx-software.com/2018/10/21/...rocessors/
https://www.cnx-software.com/2019/07/19/...vs-s905x3/
https://www.cnx-software.com/2018/09/22/...android-9/
Yes - but both Netflix and YouTube also serve content in alternative codecs - and if this devices has been being developed for a while to get kinks knocked out of it etc., then it isn't going to be bleeding edge tech. SoCs that support AV1 are only just beginning to appear - so it's not unexpected that this device isn't based around them?
The S905X2 is a reasonably mature processor (it's older than the S905X3 in the well regarded ODroid C4?) - but seems to have the same video decode functionality as the 905X3.
