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Streaming sites use them so there's a solid chance you've used it plenty without actively choosing to
I don't use it, I can't speak to anyone else using it. If YouTube is sending it out that's them using it. None of my files are that codec.
AV1 is one of the codecs that youtube uses. Not all videos have an AV1 version available though.
So you just don't watch it in that case?
Yeah, totally. 🙄
AV1 is not an encoder. If you watch AV1 encoded videos, you're using AV1.