Articles tagged “AV1”
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Firefox brings you smooth video playback with the world’s fastest AV1 decoder
With this week's release of Firefox 67, the new high performance royalty-free AV1 video decoder dav1d is now enabled by default on all desktop platforms (Windows, OSX and Linux) for both 32-bit and 64-bit systems. And work is in progress on rav1e, the Rust AV1 encoder.
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Into the Depths: The Technical Details Behind AV1
AV1, the next generation royalty-free video codec from the Alliance for Open Media leapfrogs the performance of VP9 and HEVC. The AV1 format is and will always be royalty-free with a permissive FOSS license. In this video presentation, Mozilla's Nathan Egge dives deep into the technical details of the codec and its evolution.