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Please Stop Making Terrible GIFs (thereallo.dev)
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[–] Glitchvid@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (3 children)

Apple has limited support for AV1 streams (yes, even for software decode) unless on very recent hardware. Here's an AV1 stream inside a webm container for comparison, would be interesting to see if that works over the avif container on your stack.

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[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 hours ago

This doesn't work for me but the original one you posted does (Voyager, iPhone 14 pro)

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 hours ago

Random Android phone on Voyager; yes.

[–] ink@sh.itjust.works 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Ah yeah, that would explain it - my phone is now pretty outdated (I’m on a 12) - I clicked on the image link in your response but it didn’t load for me, unfortunately.

I’m not sure if that’s a result of my outdated hardware or if I perhaps clicked on it before it had a chance to process your upload, but you seem much more knowledgeable than I, so I’m going to assume it’s my hardware. I appreciate the response and the second attempt, though! :)

[–] Glitchvid@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

It's an intentional behavior by Apple. Basically they just don't support AV1 videostreams unless the hardware you're using has a hardware decoder (read: very new). They could support it using software decode (what browsers typically do for AV1 inside avif containers) but.... for whatever reasons don't.

[–] ink@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Haha, ye$, for rea$on$, I'm $ure... :D

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 hours ago

I'm not sure demand for AV1 is enough to ship units

Probably either laziness or they want to avoid software decoding in general for performance reasons