Google is switching to libdav1d for AV1 video decoding on Android. The new development was officially confirmed by Arif Dikici, a member of the Android Video and Image Codecs team. The company even ...

Netflix announced today that it’s beginning to stream video using AV1 on Android. This high-performance, royalty-free codec provides 20% improved compression efficiency over VP9. Developed by the ...

The AV1 streaming codec is something that Google and others are behind bringing to the mass market, and slowly it’s expanding. This week, following successful tests on Android smartphones and tablets, ...

Netflix is rolling out AV1 video codec support in its Android app, the company announced earlier this week. The new codec provides 20 percent more compression efficiency over Google’s VP9, which the ...

AV1 is a video codec that’s gaining traction among online streaming services because it’s free of royalties and delivers good video quality without needing a lot of bandwidth. However, many devices ...

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 ...

In context: The AV1 video coding format provides an open, royalty-free codec specifically designed for internet video streaming, developed as a successor to Google's VP9. Unlike competing formats like ...

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, ...

Netflix has this week announced it has converted its Netflix Android application to start streaming using the AV1 royalty-free video codec, providing users with a 20% compression efficiency ...

The Steam Link Android app has just received a major update. This update brings support for 500 more devices, AV1 streaming, HDR support, and more. Valve’s Steam Link app is arguably the best way to ...

Google is said to be mandating all new Android TVs must support the AV1 codec from the end of March. AV1, which was first launch in 2018, is a royalty-free codec that claims to have a 50 per cent ...