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Netflix has started streaming to Android in AV1 Feb 6th 2020, 18:23 Netflix has started rolling out AV1 encoded content on the Android platform. Users will be able to watch select titles encoded in AV1 by enabling the 'Save Data' feature in the app. Netflix currently streams its content in a wide variety of codecs, including H.264(AVC), HEVC and VP9. On Android, the default codec currently is VP9 as it's natively supported by the software and the hardware. However, from today, users will be able to choose AV1 as well, as long as the content supports it. AV1 (not to be confused with AVC or AVC1) is a royalty-free open codec, designed primarily for...

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