SDMC releases first Android 10 Os TV Box that supports AV1 Decoding

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SDMC DV8919 Amlogic S905X4 Android TV 10 TV Box Supports AV1 Decoding

SDMC DV8919 specifications:

• SoC – Amlogic S905X4 quad-core Arm Cortex-A55 processor @ up to 2.0 GHz with Arm Mali-G31MP2 supporting OpenGL ES3.2, Vulkan 1.1 and OpenCL 2.0
• System Memory – 2GB DDR memory (options: 1GB or 4GB)
• Storage – 8GB eMMC flash (options: 16GB, 32GB, 64GB), MicroSD card slot
• Video
  • Output – HDMI 2.1 up to 4K @ 60+Hz with CEC & HDCP2.2, AV output with composite video
  • Input – HMDI input (TBC)
• Audio – Analog stereo audio via AV output, digital audio via HDMI, and optical S/PDIF
• Video Playback
  • Codecs
    • AV1 up to 4K @ 120 fps
    • H.265 HEVC MP-10 up to 4K @ 75fps
    • VP9 up to 4K @ 75fps
    • AVS2-P2 up to 4K @ 75fps
    • H.264 AVC up to 4K @ 30fps
    • MPEG1/2/4 ASP, WMV/VC-1, RealVideo8/9/10,
  • HDR – HDR 10, HLG, PRIME HDR, TCH PRIME, options HDR10+, optional Dolby Vision
  • DRM – Google Widevine & Microsoft PlayReady; options: Verimatrix, Irdeto MSR2.2, Nagra TKL
• Connectivity – 10/100M Ethernet (optional Gigabit Ethernet), Wi-Fi 5 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac MiMO, Bluetooth 4.2
• USB – 1x USB 3.0 port, 1x USB 2.0 port
• Misc – Power button; Power, IR & Network LEDs; IR receiver
• Power Supply – 5V/2A via DC jack
• Dimensions – 120 x 120 x 28mm

Source: https://www.cnx-software.com/2019/1...4-android-tv-10-tv-box-supports-av1-decoding/

Wow. Hardware decoding of AV1 codec on such a tiny processor. Cant wait till 2020 end for such AV1 decoding boxes to come out.


https://demo.bitmovin.com/public/firefox/av1/
My Celeron NUC can do till 360p. At 720p it starts dropping frames and just plays 1 second video every few seconds. There is setting in Youtube account where you can set it to play AV1 codec only for SD resolutions or automatically. Just looking at the demo clip, I guess everyone (even people like me who have Intel integrated graphics) can safely turn on AV1 codec till 480p resolutions to get good quality video and not tax the processor much.

 

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I can tell you that Android 10 being somewhat new still not presented in some possible devices already like for example my newest ASUS Zenfone Live L2, they still consider Android 8 as a latest possible system, however I have seen Beta of Android 9 in September.