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plonk420
Copper Contributor
Jul 23, 2021

please enable AV1 playback like Chrome

could you please enable AV1 playback in .webm (edit: playback via dragging the file into the browser) like Chrome has? it also utilizes dav1d 0.9.0+ which beats the pants off the Windows Store AV1 decoder for Movies & TV which i assume nobody on these MS forums is associated with or can directly communicate with...

 

attached is good ole Big Buck Bunny from one of the r/AV1 Discord's 8MB challenges (stuff various resolution/length videos into 8MB, which is Discord's free tier file attachment limit) @ HAV1T. it is AV1 video codec + Opus audio codec in webm (subset of the mkv spec).

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    bella0450
    Copper Contributor
    Oct 29, 2021
    Microsoft suggests downloading AV1 video extension from its microsoft store and then you can play av1 video successfully. this is the detailed AV1 codec download guide and other suggestions. https://bit.ly/3GuVgMd
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      plonk420
      Copper Contributor
      Oct 29, 2021

      bella0450 

      the performance is terrible (don't think it's been updated in over a year or year and a half?). can't even play 10 bit 1080p smoothly on a Ryzen 3600 with the MS Store video extension, whereas you can play it on an AVXless (Haswell gen) Pentium G3258 (2c2t) with a recent MPC-BE or mpv. there have been at least 3 major updates with regards to speed since last december or so with dav1d.

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        bella0450
        Copper Contributor
        Oct 29, 2021
        As a matter of fact, AV1 decoding is computerintensive. Check if your GPU and CPU is capable of decoding AV1. As far as I know, Nvidia GeForce RTX 30 Series GPU and Intel Tiger Lake CPU support AV1 hardware decoding. If your hardware is underpower, playing AV1 can be troublesome.

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