I'm thinking about buying the latest Roku Ultra because it says it support AV1 media format. Does it have a hardware decoder or how does it manage to do it when even my nvidia Shield Pro doesn't direct play av1 content?
(disclaimer: I used to work there)
Even the newest Shield Pro is based on a 2015 SoC (Tegra-X1) with an integrated 2014 Nvidia GPU (Maxwell). Not surprising it doesnt support av1.