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We’re excited about the new open source AV1 video & image codec. Nearly every major tech company seems to be behind it, so what’s the motivation? Our sysadmin doggo Riley and software developer wolf s0ph0s join to go on a deep dive on the history of AV1, what features it will bring, when it will start to appear, and how it even works.
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Discussed:
- AV1 is a free video codec with more intelligent image compression that takes advantage of how good computing power is getting, while being 50%+ more efficient in bandwidth than most existing solutions
- Developed by Alliance for Open Media
- Backed by: Amazon, Apple, ARM, Cisco, Facebook, Google, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla, Netflix, NVIDIA, Samsung, Tencent
- More support from: BBC, AMD, Adobe, Hulu, CableLabs, Polycom, VideoLAN, Vimeo, Twitch, AND MORE….
- Built off a foundation of Google’s already deployed VP9, Google’s planned VP10, Cisco’s Thor, and Xiph’s Daala
- Existing codecs:
- Today’s older H.264 is a licensing nightmare, the successor H.265 is even worse
- Apple didn’t like VP9’s licensing or battery consumption
- DVD uses H.262 (MPEG-2), Blu-ray uses H.264, and UHD Blu-ray uses H.265
- Cisco’s OpenH264 decoder announced in 2013 saved Mozilla $9.75 million a year
- H.265 carries 23 patents
- NVIDIA’s matrix of codec support for encoding & decoding on various GPU models
- AV1 is already here!
- AV1 uses Opus for audio by default, which sounds good compared to other codecs
- Netflix wrote a tech blog on using AV1 for images, aka AVIF format
- AV1 is very smart
- Three encoders:
- Reference encoder (proves every concept but very slow)
- rav1e backed by Xiph Mozilla and Vimeo
- SVT-AV1 backed by Netflix and Intel
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