FFmpeg 4.0 gives many video engineers their first chance to test the new AV1 codec against H.264, HEVC, and VP9. The results? In our tests, quality was impressive, but glacially slow encoding times ...

FFmpeg 4.0 gives many video engineers their first chance to test the new AV1 codec against H.264, HEVC, and VP9. The results? In our tests, quality was impressive, but glacially slow encoding times ...

AV1 is developed by the Alliance for Open Media – a consortium backed by lots of major tech corporations adjacent to streaming and video, including the likes of Google, Netflix, Arm, Apple ...

The social network takes its first steps to send video using a new technology that can cut your data use, improve quality, and deliver videos faster.

Android currently ships with the libgav1 AV1 decoder, but a future update will switch that to libdav1d, which offers much better performance.

After pushing AV1 codec, Google goes after Dolby with HDR and audio standards AV1's Alliance for Open Media wants more royalty-free standards.

Netflix switches to the AV1 codec for data-saving streams on Android The new royalty-free codec isn't being used widely, yet.

Netflix announced this week that it has started to stream titles in AV1 on Android in what could significantly help the two-year-old media codec gain ...