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 ...

You can finally put that AV1 acceleration on your graphics card to good use. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. AV1 promises to ...

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, ...

OBS 29 adds AV1 encoding support for new AMD and Intel GPUs, among other improvements. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. If you ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NEW YORK--With giants such as Netflix, Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft in its corner, the ...

Bitmovin was founded in Austria in 2013, initially to market a DASH-based HTML5 player, then adding cloud encoding and analytics. Earlier this year, Bitmovin announced a managed on-premise encoding ...

Why it matters: As more hardware and software add support for encoding AV1, the video codec looks to succeed H.264 as the preferred standard. Another step in the transition approaches as YouTube ...

The launch of FFmpeg 4.0 gave many compressionists their first chance to test the new AV1 codec, which is included in experimental form. For the first time, you had a single encoder that could produce ...