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, ...

If you've ever done any livestreaming on the internet, then you already know that one of the most important technical aspects of doing so is properly configuring your stream settings. Your selection ...

Popular streaming tool OBS Studio just got a new release with version 29.1, bringing AV1 streaming to YouTube over Enhanced RTMP. As per NVIDIA's latest post, this is perfect for the GeForce RTX 40 ...

In a recent announcement, NVIDIA asserts that its AV1 video encoder has outperformed AMD and Intel counterparts, showcasing superior video quality. The comparison was done using NVIDIA's own GeForce ...

If you've read coverage—including ours—of any recent graphics hardware launches, you've surely seen mention of AV1 video codec support as one of the major benefits. It was a selling point for both ...

AV1, which was developed by Google, Netflix, and others, is a next-generation codec for streaming that can encode 4K image quality with high compression rates. Bitmovin, which develops video encoding ...

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 ...

Grenoble, France - April 18, 2019 -- Allegro DVT, a leading provider of video semiconductor IP solutions, today announced the availability of its AL-E210 multi-format video encoder hardware IP which ...

Facebook has begun trials of new video compression technology AV1. The social networking site said in a blog post that the trial “allows engineers and the general public to view sample AV1 content ...

I think people mostly stopped caring after the DivX ;-) 3.11 codec back in 2000, I don't think there's been a huge popular demand for better compression since. Anything since that has mainly been ...

Table 2 shows the BD-Rate and BD-Quality calculations. Briefly, BD-Rate shows the data rate savings associated with using the AV1 codec. Looking at the overall average, AV1 could deliver the same ...