Is this a VP9 vs HEVC thing? I assume the Apple TV is too low ... • Aaron Parecki

📷 PhotoJoseph 🎥 https://twitter.com/photojoseph • Apr 18
One problem — YouTube app on Apple TV 4K doesn’t play 4K or HDR (doesn’t use VP9/VP9.2 codec). This is such a stupid pissing contest between Apple and Google. It’s truly wonderful when multi-billion dollar companies can’t cooperate for the benefit of the customers who made them.

Is this a VP9 vs HEVC thing? I assume the Apple TV is too low power to implement software decoding and needs hardware support, but that means a new Apple TV to get VP9, if Apple will even add that since they're all in on HEVC? What a mess.

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Sat, Apr 18, 2020 8:55am -07:00

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- Aaron Parecki twitter.com/aaronpk
  
  Ok you're right, at least on the TV 4K, because Plex can play VP9 videos on it. They must have bundled a software decoder into Plex to do that without hardware acceleration.
  
  Sat, Apr 18, 2020 4:39pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- 📷 PhotoJoseph 🎥 twitter.com/photojoseph
  
  Yeah I still don’t buy it’s a processor thing.
  
  Sat, Apr 18, 2020 4:35pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Aaron Parecki twitter.com/aaronpk
  
  iPhone X is the A11 processor. The Apple TV is A8, Apple TV 4K is the A10, so it'll be a while before a new chip makes it to an updated Apple TV!
  
  Sat, Apr 18, 2020 3:59pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- 📷 PhotoJoseph 🎥 twitter.com/photojoseph
  
  Yeah. It’s not a hardware power thing. My 2017 iPhone X plays VP9 just fine.
  
  Sat, Apr 18, 2020 3:56pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)

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