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 ...

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 tech industry has been abuzz with chatter about AV1 encoding recently. There are bold claims about how it will revolutionize streaming video, game streaming, and the Internet at large—but what is ...

Bitmovin was founded in Austria in 2013, initially to market a DASH-based HTML5 player, then adding cloud encoding and analytics. Earlier this year, Bitmovin announced a managed on-premise encoding ...

ATEME, Bitmovin, Google, VideoLAN, Vimeo, and Visionular share in their own words how AV1 is making an impact on their business and customers. "The continuing adoption and positive impact that AV1 has ...

BEIJING, April 30, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- iQIYI Inc. (NASDAQ: IQ) ("iQIYI" or 'the "Company"), an innovative market-leading online entertainment service in China, has recently launched support for the ...

Netflix has begun streaming select titles encoded in the new, more efficient AV1 codec to compatible Smart TVs and game consoles. AV1 is the first royalty-free high-efficiency video codec, developed ...

Antitrust regulators in the European Union are now investigating the wide-ranging big tech coalition that controls the AV1 video codec standard, citing concerns over anticompetitive behavior. The ...

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 ...