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AV1 is definitely a showstopper a lot of the time indeed. H265 I would expect to see more on 2k or 4k content (though native support is really high anyway). My experience so far has been seeing transcoding done only becuase the resolution is unsupported when I try watching 4k videos on an older 1080p only chromecast.
What do you mean by showstopper? I only encode my shows into AV1/opus and I never had any transcoding happening on any of my devices.
It's well supported on any recent Browser compared to x264/x265... specially 10bit encodes. And software decoding is nearly present on any recent device.
Dunno about 4k though, I haven't the necessary screen resolution to play any 4k content... But for 1080p, AV1 is the way to go IMO.
It has it's own quirks for sure (like every codec) but it's far from a bad codec. I'm not a specialist on the subject but after a few months of testing/comparing/encoding... I settled with AV1 because it was comparative better than x264/x265.
Showstopper in the sense that it may not play natively and require transcoding. While x264 has pretty much universal support, AV1 does not.. at least not on some of my devices. I agree that it is a good encoder and the way forward but its not the best when using older devices. My experience has been with Chromecast with Google TV. Looks like google only added AV1 support in their newest Google TV Streamer (late 2024 device).