The recently released AV1 video codec works better than expected, according to Facebook engineers, after putting the new technology through a benchmark test that tried to mimic Facebook's real-life ...

Protocol reports that Qualcomm will finally jump on the AV1 video codec bandwagon next year. AV1 is the web’s next open, royalty-free video codec, and widespread adoption will require hardware support ...

WAKEFIELD, Mass., September 30, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia), a collaboration of innovators working together to define and deploy open standards that power the next ...

In 2020, Intel amonh the first to deliver AV1 hardware decoding with their Xe-LP GPUs. Version 1.0 of its fast open source scalable video technology AV1 encoder and decoder for CPUs was launched this ...

BEIJING, April 30, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- iQIYI Inc. (NASDAQ: IQ) ("iQIYI" or 'the "Company"), an innovative market-leading online entertainment service in China, has recently launched support for the ...

The makers of the AV1 video format have started the Open Audio Codec.

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, ...

Qualcomm may plan to support the open AV1 video codec in future Snapdragon chips. AV1, or ‘AOMedia Video 1,’ is an open, royalty-free coding format designed for transmitting video over the internet.

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, ...

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 ...