In addition to Access Advance's Video Distribution Patent Pool, Sisvel's AV1 pool also administers intellectual property practiced by AV1 implementations. Other patent holders, including Nokia, have ...

Dolby sued Snap in U.S. and Brazil, claiming Snapchat's AV1 and HEVC codec use infringes patents, challenging AV1's long-assumed royalty-free status.

While 2018 was the year AV1 became known, 2020 will be the year that AV1 became interesting, primarily because of three developments. First, in early 2020, AV1-enabled smart TVs hit the market, right ...

Streaming codec adoption used to be an engineering abstraction governed by RD curves, BD-rate tables, and roadmap slides that ...

It’s not that long ago that the video codec market was fairly simple with AVC (H.264) being in wide use, MPEG 2 still propping up SD broadcasting and a bubbling undercurrent of HEVC. For many today, ...

According to a new report by XDA Developers, Google may soon require new Android TV devices to support the AV1 codec. Notably, it is important for smart devices including smartphones, TVs, etc. to ...

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 ...

Meta, Vodafone, and YouTube parent Google have called on smartphone chip designers to support the AV1 video codec in devices to better compress videos and reduce increasing network strain. In a white ...

As a recap, AV1 is a newer video codec than the commonly-used AVC, also known as H.264. It is much more computationally-intensive both to playback and create, but given that video encoding and ...

Graphics Cards AMD announces next-gen 'FSR Diamond' AI-enhanced upscaling for future Xbox consoles, but the question is whether it's coming to PC and which GPUs will support it Graphics Cards AMD ...

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 ...