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		butz on May 23, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: I open sourced a game I just released on ... You need to install non-free video codecs. It would be great if GitHub recommended using open video codecs for people uploading videos. AV1 would be a good candidate, but Safari still doesn't support it.

my123 on May 24, 2021 [–]

It's really not the time to embed AV1 only everywhere.

Lots of hardware around doesn't have hardware video decoding for it. If a free codec is needed, better to use VP8 (or _maybe_ VP9).

(AV1 decoding appeared in hardware for Intel Tiger Lake, NVIDIA Ampere and AMD RDNA2)

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