![]() ![]() Google has also accused Roku of using its position in the streaming-device market to secure more favorable terms (Roku's devices account for a plurality of all streaming in North America, though its market share is lower in other regions). Roku has said that adding AV1 support to its devices would "increase consumer costs," and requiring it for YouTube and YouTube TV support would effectively allow Google to dictate which chips Roku uses in its own products. But because streaming devices tend to use slower, cheaper processors, they rely on dedicated video decoding hardware to be able to actually decompress and display those video files, and while most of these devices support the commonly used H.265/HEVC codec for high-resolution video streams, fewer support the royalty-free AV1 codec. ![]() The YouTube and YouTube TV apps use AV1 (which is backed by Google, among other companies) to deliver compressed 4K and 8K video streams. Support for the AV1 codec has been one of the major sticking points between the two companies.
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