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I'm thinking about buying the latest Roku Ultra because it says it support AV1 media format. Does it have a hardware decoder or how does it manage to do it when even my nvidia Shield Pro doesn't direct play av1 content?

https://www.roku.com/products/roku-ultra



The Ultra 2020 edition and onwards use the Realtek RTD1319 for av1 decoding.

(disclaimer: I used to work there)


I am so curious about the Roku and what is under the hood. They really do have a lot of value for the cost. Quirky at times, though.


Thank you just ordered the device.


> my nvidia Shield Pro doesn't direct play av1

Even the newest Shield Pro is based on a 2015 SoC (Tegra-X1) with an integrated 2014 Nvidia GPU (Maxwell). Not surprising it doesnt support av1.




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