> That's not the experience I've seen on newer hardware
Works fine for me at 1080p VP9 on a mid-2014 Macbook Pro. 720p VP9 also works fine in VLC on my iPhone 7. Haven't tried 1080p on the phone. It doesn't have the resolution for it anyway. 720p AV1 will probably work on the phone as well (AV1 decode is about 1.5x the complexity of VP9).
> What I'm talking about is the difference which hardware acceleration makes
So it's time to get Apple to enable the VP9 acceleration present in their latest models (around 2015 and later).
But don't worry about it. AV1 is coming and everyone is finally on-board with royalty-free video. The bad old days are nearly over.
Works fine for me at 1080p VP9 on a mid-2014 Macbook Pro. 720p VP9 also works fine in VLC on my iPhone 7. Haven't tried 1080p on the phone. It doesn't have the resolution for it anyway. 720p AV1 will probably work on the phone as well (AV1 decode is about 1.5x the complexity of VP9).
> What I'm talking about is the difference which hardware acceleration makes
So it's time to get Apple to enable the VP9 acceleration present in their latest models (around 2015 and later).
But don't worry about it. AV1 is coming and everyone is finally on-board with royalty-free video. The bad old days are nearly over.