dav1d
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5recommend
0warn against
Dec 4, 2025first mention
Jun 1, 2026latest mention
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“dav1d is also mighty.”
“And don't underestimate dav1d”
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“Really amazing piece of software.”
“there's a reason why dav1d includes hand coded SIMD for common platforms”
“They got within 5% of the performance of dav1d”
“yes it makes sense to use C/ASM here”
“The dav1d decoder is mighty.”
“dav1d 0.5 can decode 143 FPS of a 1080p 8-bit video”
“than dav1d”
“dav1d is also mighty.”
“And don't underestimate dav1d”
Even RISC-V vector assembly[0]. 0. https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav1d/-/issues/435
“lovingly hand crafted SIMD ASM instructions it's actually possible to reasonably playback AV1 without hardware acceleration”