As video has taken center stage on Facebook in recent years with the proliferation of Reels and Stories, AV1 deployment has become increasingly central to Meta's video strategy, reports Meta technical ...

A new tech blog from Netflix highlights the importance of the AV1 open video codec, which now powers about 30% of the platform’s streaming and discusses a variety of opportunities to expand its ...

AV1 is a next-generation open video codec that offers high-quality playback at smaller file sizes. However, not all players or devices support it by default. Here’s how to play AV1 files on your PC ...

Vodafone, Meta, and Google have released a white paper detailing the benefits of advanced video compression technology in mid and low tier smartphones to enhance the viewing experience for more people ...

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 ...

Rajesh started following the latest happenings in the world of Android around the release of the Nexus One and Samsung Galaxy S. After flashing custom ROMs and kernels on his beloved Galaxy S, he ...

Because of the video size limit of 10GB per video, I have to convert some videos to the AV1 format to be able to upload them to my self hosted Ente Photos instance. The "streamable videos" option is ...

OS: Android (via Termux) ab-av1 version: 0.10.1 ffmpeg version: 7.1.1 Source Video: HEVC, 8-bit, Variable Frame Rate (VFR), from a Xiaomi POCO X5 phone. The crf-search and auto-encode commands ...

Google is testing an upgrade to Chrome’s video playback on Windows. A new feature, called HardwareSecureDecryptionAv1, aims to improve AV1 video streaming for protected content, leading to smoother 4K ...

While the rollout of SMPTE ST 2110 has dominated technical standards discussion, there are plenty of new developments in the pipeline When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

A cabinet member’s social feed is one example of the administration’s turn to reality-TV tactics — slick, showy, sometimes cruel — as a means of government. By James Poniewozik James Poniewozik is the ...

Tech’s biggest players are all in on AV1, but competing codecs and technical limitations might be holding it back. Tech’s biggest players are all in on AV1, but competing codecs and technical ...