The definitive specs for the AV2 codec have been released by the Alliance for Open Media. AV2 is a video codec and a successor to AV1, currently used by Netflix, YouTube, and others. The new codec ...

AOMedia Video 1 (AV1) was invented by a group of technology companies to be an open, royalty-free alternative to other video codecs, like HEVC/H.265. But a lawsuit that Dolby Laboratories Inc. filed ...

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“At Meta, we started pushing AV1 in VOD on Reels since [the] 2021-2022 timeframe,” Tmar explains. “And we started with iOS where we pushed AV1 decoding in software at the time with an awesome open ...

Streaming software 2026 is transforming the landscape for content creators by optimizing encoding, reducing CPU usage, and enabling high-quality broadcasts on budget hardware. Low-end streaming setups ...

A new tech blog from Netflix highlights the importance of the AV1 open video codec, which now powers about 30% of the platform’s streaming and discusses a variety of opportunities to expand its ...

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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 ...

In a nutshell: Streaming and other demanding video applications are growing rapidly, and existing codecs are struggling to keep pace. Fortunately, AOMedia has pledged to finalize a new generation of ...

Russian YouTuber VIK-on recently released a video showcasing his modded NVIDIA RTX 4090, doubling its VRAM to 48GB from its already-beefy base 24GB. To pull it off, VIK-on needed to source a couple of ...