You have to hand it to Google. It has made using YouTube on both ends an almost magical and painless experience. A YouTuber uploads a single video with nary a care in the world and everyone on the ...

Various streaming services support AV1 playback, while Pixel 10 phones can capture AV1 videos, but AV2 just took a big step ...

In a recent development, Android system development manager Arif Dikici confirmed that the Play System update released in March 2024 has switched to VideoLAN’s open-source libdav1d codec, thereby ...

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 ...

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, ...

The upgrade brings new capabilities to download AV1 content from YouTube and other online sites and decode AV1 codecs into other formats. AV1 is an emerging royalty-free video codec that is designed ...

Back in February of 2020, Netflix began streaming AV1 feeds to the Android mobile app, which brings with it some notable benefits. Now Netflix says plans on extending AV1 streaming to include a bunch ...

I recently wrote three blog posts about the codecs YouTube uses to encode videos uploaded to the site. Looking back, I realize I was flying blind for the first two posts. Then, based on data gathered ...