Move over H.264/AVC and HEVC, there's a new video streaming codec in town and it's got you in its sites. AV1 is here and it's going to be everywhere before you know it. AV1 is an open, royalty-free ...

Like to binge-watch a movie or two on the bus? Netflix has some good news for you: it's started streaming content in the data-saving AV1 video codec. The US streaming giant says the the royalty-free ...

It’s not that long ago that the video codec market was fairly simple with AVC (H.264) being in wide use, MPEG 2 still propping up SD broadcasting and a bubbling undercurrent of HEVC. For many today, ...

' AV1 ' is a video compression codec promoted by major tech companies such as Netflix, YouTube, and Google. It is expected to be about 30% more efficient than conventional HEVC (H.265) and VP9, and ...

AI-driven video compression and streaming provider, Visionular, has announced a strategic partnership with Reticulate Micro, Inc, which aims to deliver ultra-low-bitrate (sub-100kbps), ultra-low ...

Hardware and software support for the royalty-free AV1 video codec has been steadily building over the last couple years. Hardware-accelerated encoding and decoding is becoming standard in more GPUs, ...

What’s New: At The National Association of Broadcasters Show (NAB Show) today, Intel and Netflix* announced a new high-performance video codec that is available as open source and royalty-free to ...

It has become clear that YouTube has started a beta test of live distribution using the video codec ' AV1 '. Users who participated in the beta test reported that they were able to achieve live ...

Meta, Vodafone, and YouTube parent Google have called on smartphone chip designers to support the AV1 video codec in devices to better compress videos and reduce increasing network strain. In a white ...

The Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia), founded in 2015 by companies ranging from Amazon and Google through to Intel and Arm, has announced the launch of the AV1 video codec - which, it claims, offers ...

While 2018 was the year AV1 became known, 2020 will be the year that AV1 became interesting, primarily because of three developments. First, in early 2020, AV1-enabled smart TVs hit the market, right ...