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Mozilla Firefox will finally add support for AV1 hardware acceleration
Firefox will soon be adding support for the hardware-accelerated AV1 decoder. The feature will arrive as part of Firefox version 100.
Mozilla says it's finally ready to add support for the AV1 codec in the Firefox browser. While competitors like Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge have long supported hardware-accelerated AV1 video codec, Firefox missed out on this feature. But at long last, the browser is finally catching up.
Windows 10 will soon get hardware-based AV1 codec, Spotlight for Desktop
Windows 10 will soon get hardware accelerated AV1 codec that can reach 50% better compression than H.264 and 20% better than VP9. Know more!
Microsoft has officially announced that it is finally bringing hardware-accelerated AV1 video codec to Windows 10 later this year. The AV1 codec offers better compression compared to the existing H.265 codec, and at the same time, it aims to reduce data usage when streaming videos online. The codec was announced by the Alliance for Open Media (AOM), a consortium founded by Microsoft, Google, Mozilla, Cisco, Intel, Netflix, and Amazon. AV1 or the AOMedia Video Codec 1.0 is a royalty-free specification and can be delivered across platforms. It has the potential to deliver 4K UHD video at an average of 30-percent greater compression compared to other codecs.
Qualcomm, Samsung, and Huawei back the MPEG-5 EVC video codec for 4K and 8K UHD videos
Qualcomm, Samsung, and Huawei are now backing MPEG-5 EVC, and alternative to HEVC. The codec claims to offer the same quality at a better bitrate.
The HEVC (High Efficiency Video Codec) has been around for quite a while and it offers reduced video file sizes and better quality than other codecs. In the world of smartphones, this becomes especially important. Qualcomm, Samsung, and Huawei are now backing MPEG-5 EVC, an alternative to HEVC.
MediaTek Dimensity 1000 is the first smartphone SoC to support AV1 hardware decoding
Featuring world’s first hardware AV1 video decoder for smartphones, the MediaTek Dimensity 1000 SoC will support AV1 encoded YouTube videos soon.
Paying attention to a codec while listening to your favorite track or watching a movie on one of the many streaming services out there might not be your cup of tea, unless you discover how a specific codec can indirectly help you save a considerable amount of data while binge-watching Netflix. Yes, we are talking about the royalty-free AV1 codec that is now being used by Google as well in order to improve the quality of the video calls in Google Duo.
Netflix for Android now streams some shows in AV1 to save data
Netflix for Android now support the royalty-free AOMedia Video 1 (AV1) codec for select shows which will help users save mobile data.
The Alliance for Open Media came out with the royalty-free AOMedia Video 1 (AV1) codec all the way back in 2017 in a bid to replace H.264 as the primary codec for online streaming and media consumption. The new codec offered around 30% better compression than Google's previous VP9 standard without hampering the picture quality. The codec made its way over to Google Chrome with the Chrome 70 update back in October 2018, when Google added an AV1 decoder to the browser with MP4 being used as the supported container (ISO-BMFF). Early last year, following the first rollout of Android 10 beta 1, we learned that Google had added support for the AV1 codec on the platform. Soon thereafter, popular video streaming platform Vimeo added support for the royalty-free AV1 codec and now Netflix seems to be following in its footsteps.