So, here are possible solutions you can try to solve AV1 VLC not working problems. Turning on VLC hardware acceleration may help, but VLC AV1 H/W is still under development. Other the other hand, AV1 video codec is mainly designed to bring higher compression rate to UHD 4K, HDR and even 8K videos, so even a modern computer could hardly handle it smoothly. On the one hand, missing codec or codec incompatibility should be to blame.
The typical VLC AV1 problems as of now are error message 'Codec not supported: VLC could not decode the format av01 (AOMedia's AV1 Video).', choppy and black screen. That’s why you may encounter some errors when playing it. How to Solve VLC Won’t Play AV01 Videos?ĪV1 is a future project so that seldom software, hardware and platforms fully support it. Right click on the AV1 video you just downloaded and choose VLC media player to play.You can also choose Open Multiple Files and Open Folder to play an.
Then, choose your AV1 video and click Open.