alt Hacker NewsSorry, but YouTube began thermal throttling on a Firestick the moment they started forcing AV1 regardless of the presence of on-device hardware support.
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Dylan16807 • yesterday at 6:16 PM
Then that particular model doesn't support it properly. I don't think that changes my point.
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>forcing AV1 regardless of the presence of on-device hardware support
I'm posting from a machine without AV1 acceleration. I disabled AV1 in Firefox's about:config and Youtube falls back to VP9.