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, ...

If you've read coverage—including ours—of any recent graphics hardware launches, you've surely seen mention of AV1 video codec support as one of the major benefits. It was a selling point for both ...

As a recap, AV1 is a newer video codec than the commonly-used AVC, also known as H.264. It is much more computationally-intensive both to playback and create, but given that video encoding and ...

A recent paper from Friedrich-Alexander University benchmarks energy consumption and compression efficiency for six video codecs across software and hardware decoders. While the study uses VP9 as a ...

The arc of AV1 codec adoption for large-scale content owners has been long and complex, as Meta Senior Media Software Engineer David Ronca (who also spent 12 years developing encoding solutions at ...

Bitmovin’s latest Video Developer Report reveals that while video developers are still predominantly using H.262/AVC and H.265/HEVC for both live and VoD encoding, AV1 remains the codec most are ...

Video compression plays a pivotal role in modern media streaming, influencing everything from the quality of the content we enjoy, to the efficiency of data transmission. One of the latest ...

I live a short drive away from Silicon Valley. You’d think my internet speeds would be phenomenal as a result. Alas, no. Those gigabit speeds promoted in numerous AT&T, Comcast, and Sonic ads? You ...

Google‘s current-gen Tensor G3 chip, used in the Pixel 8 series, has a hidden feature — built-in support for the AV1 codec. This marks it as the first smartphone processor capable of handling AV1 ...

And you shouldn't have to wait long before the best video software makes use of it. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The Khronos ...