Netflix Android App Starts Streaming AVI Content to Save Cellular Data

Netflix on Wednesday announced that it has started streaming AV1 videos on its Android app. The move is expected to reduce data usage for Android users, given that the royalty-gratuitous video codec is said to offer up to 20 percent compression efficiency over VP9 codecs currently used by the visitor.

This feature can be activated manually on the Android app past enabling the 'Save Information' option from 'App Settings -> Cellular Data Usage' under the 'More than' tab in the navigation menu.

While the option will only exist available for a scattering of titles, to begin with, the company says that information technology is planning to bring more content compressed by the new, efficient codec sooner rather than later on. In an official blog mail explaining its plans, the company said, "As codec functioning improves over fourth dimension, we plan to expand our AV1 usage to more use cases and are at present too working with device and chipset partners to extend this into hardware."

Explaining the new tech, Netflix said, "Our AV1 support on Android leverages the open-source dav1d decoder congenital by the VideoLAN, VLC, and FFmpeg communities and sponsored by the Brotherhood for Open Media. Here, we have optimized dav1d so that it can play Netflix content, which is 10-fleck colour. In the spirit of making AV1 widely available, we are sponsoring an open up-source endeavour to optimize x-flake performance further and make these gains available to all."

While Netflix says that it wants to eventually support the new codec on all platforms, it believes that mobile devices are the best fit for the new engineering science, given that its compression efficiency will be appreciated by smartphone users with unreliable cellular networks and limited data plans.

Source: https://beebom.com/netflix-streaming-avi-content-save-cellular-data-android/

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