Arif Dikici, who is a part of the Android Video and Image Codecs team at Google, recently announced on LinkedIn that Android will now use an AV1 decoder known as “libdav1d,” which was created by the team behind VLC.
Arif Dikici, who is a part of the Android Video and Image Codecs team at Google, recently announced on LinkedIn that Android will now use an AV1 decoder known as “libdav1d,” which was created by the team behind VLC.
They are and it is. This was anounced two months ago, though i didnt find any articles about google paying for or directly contributing to videolan for the use of it.
https://www.androidauthority.com/android-update-av1-videos-3420418/
Looks like it might be inferred by this:
https://www.videolan.org/projects/dav1d.html
https://aomedia.org/membership/members/
Founding Members:
It is good that Google is acknowledging that a decoder made by someone else is better than their own by switching to it though.