Youtube already stores every video in H.264 and VP9, with some videos also being encoded in AV1. They aren’t removing support for other codecs yet, they are just making AV1 the default.
Comment on YouTube moves to AV1 by default to the dismay of some Android users
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 5 months agoThat would require not only storing the video in every resolution, but also in both codecs for every resolution. By going with AV1, they’re trying to reduce the cost of storage and bandwidth, not double it.
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 5 months ago
YouTube has exactly one purpose: playing videos. If the technology they’re trying to use can’t achieve that, the technology isn’t ready, simple as that.
AV1 won’t magically reduce storage by 90%, it’s a marginal improvement.