Feature Request: Expose AV1 and allow download & playback

[ich0x]

I have personally tested AV1 playback on an old 2016 Samsung J3 running LOS 14.1 and was successful in finding and playing suitable 480p AV1 videos on youtube using youtube-dl & a dev version of VLC from artifacts.videolan.org/vlc-android/

I have also tested 720p AV1 on a newer 2018 model J4.

However NewPipe completely ignores this format.
I would like to see this format added to NewPipe, incorporating dav1d decoding somehow into exoplayer

[Redirion]

ExoPlayer 2.11 will support AV1 through libgav1. But if I recall correctly NewPipe didn't want to include native code dependencies. So it might never get included.

[cool-student]

Android 10 includes an AV1 decoder. This means ExoPlayer already supports AV1 videos on devices running Android 10, but until now, there was no support for devices running older Android versions.

This is kinda cool so on Android 10(+) no extra libraries are needed.

[Redirion]

this also requires an Extractor change @Stypox

[wb9688]

@fabiorug: No, ExoPlayer doesn't support that. It does have a libgav1 extension though, but we don't want to add native code to NewPipe. That means we won't support it as long as it isn't a built-in feature of Android. We could however add downloading of AV1 videos, if you could provide a link to any video on a service that's currently supported by NewPipe that is encoded by AV1.

[MD77MD]

This is kinda cool so on Android 10(+) no extra libraries are needed.

Is it true that in android 10+, AV1 is built-in.

[wb9688]

@MD77MD: https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/media/media-formats#video-codecs doesn't mention anything about AV1 being supported by Android in any version, however https://developer.android.com/about/versions/10/highlights#new_audio_and_video_codecs says it has indeed been added in Android 10.

[opusforlife2]

The first page does show AV1 in the table. Maybe it was updated in the meanwhile.

[wb9688]

@opusforlife2: Yup, seems like they finally updated it. Anyway could someone link a YouTube video that has an AV1 stream (according to youtube-dl -F)?

[opusforlife2]

Dude, Youtube has entire playlists to test AV1. Give me a second.

[opusforlife2]

Yup. This one. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyqf6gJt7KuHBmeVzZteZUlNUQAVLwrZS