2023-10-26, 01:43 AM
(2023-10-26, 01:16 AM)abpjf Wrote: To clarify, I have my JF client set to always ask if I want to use an external client (VLC) for playback, so technically I guess VLC is playing it back on the Shield without transcoding, which doesn't really matter. The TLDR is that the Shield seems to be perfectly capable of playing AV1 natively via VLC.
afaik Shield doesn't support hardware decoding of AV1 - VLC is likely using software decoding, which is not always good but depends on what you're playing
you can confirm by checking the cpu usage via adb shell with the 'top' command while playing something