Every video you watch on a smartphone, tablet, or other device has to be run through some decoder, and AV1 has long been touted as the “next big thing.” To get around AV1 hardware requirements, though ...

In context: The AV1 video coding format provides an open, royalty-free codec specifically designed for internet video streaming, developed as a successor to Google's VP9. Unlike competing formats like ...

With AV1 hardware decode on mo­bile devices stuck in the mid-to-low teens as of 2025, and with VVC at zero, it’s clear that the race to supplant H.264 and HEVC will be contested with software-only ...

Google is switching to libdav1d for AV1 video decoding on Android. The new development was officially confirmed by Arif Dikici, a member of the Android Video and Image Codecs team. The company even ...

CHENGDU, China--(BUSINESS WIRE)--VideoProc, the easy and 4K-capable video processing software developed by Digiarty Software, has updated to Version 3.6 lately, with the new inclusion of AV1 decoder ...

A recent paper from Friedrich-Alexander University benchmarks energy consumption and compression efficiency for six video codecs across software and hardware decoders. While the study uses VP9 as a ...

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, ...

AV1 is a video codec that’s gaining traction among online streaming services because it’s free of royalties and delivers good video quality without needing a lot of bandwidth. However, many devices ...

Firefox is finally gaining proper AV1 support. Neowin noticed that Mozilla has closed a 2-year-old bug report asking for the feature, with AV1 hardware decoding scheduled for the release of Firefox ...

CHENGDU, China--(BUSINESS WIRE)--VideoProc, the easy and 4K-capable video processing software developed by Digiarty Software, has updated to Version 3.6 lately, with the new inclusion of AV1 decoder ...