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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 de...
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
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.