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 ...

This morning at NAB, Intel and Netflix together announced the SVT-AV1 codec which is capable of real-time 4K/60p 10-bit encoding when running on Intel Xeon Scalable processors and Intel Xeon D ...

Intel has published an open source CPU-based encoder for the AV1 codec. The Scalable Video Technology AOMedia Video 1 (SVT-AV1) encoder supports Linux, macOS and Windows operating systems. SVT-AV1 ...

I've been transcoding videos on handbrake using AV1 which I think is the latest encoder. AV1 on the Mac is often incredibly efficient. I'm talking 3gb -> 300mb efficient. Even tougher material with ...

At NAB Show in Las Vegas, Intel and Netflix announced a new high-performance video codec that is available as open source and royalty-free to content creators, developers and service providers.

The tech industry has been abuzz with chatter about AV1 encoding recently. There are bold claims about how it will revolutionize streaming video, game streaming, and the Internet at large—but what is ...

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, ...

Imagine a world where video streaming could have significantly higher quality without using up more bandwidth—or have the same quality while having half the impact on your data caps. A world where ...

WAKEFIELD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) today announced the formation of the AOMedia Software Implementation Working Group (SIWG), a member-driven initiative to aid ...

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 ...