The AV1 video codec created by the Alliance for Open Media promises big gains in video quality for a given bitrate. The new codec also delivers an open, royalty-free standard that the consortium hopes ...

Chrome OS 70 recently started rolling out, bringing a few useful changes such as the addition of an AV1 decoder for x86 devices and user-side controls for extension site access. The former of those is ...

May 13, 2019 -- Amphion has announced the scheduled availability of a hardware based AV1 decoding extension to its Malone family of high performance video decoders for SoC implementation. AV1 is the ...

Microsoft has outlined the PC system requirements to play back AV1 format videos with hardware acceleration on Windows 10. In brief, users will need the very latest GPUs from Intel, Nvidia or AMD to ...

Move over H.264/AVC and HEVC, there's a new video streaming codec in town and it's got you in its sites. AV1 is here and it's going to be everywhere before you know it. AV1 is an open, royalty-free ...

Microsoft is set to introduce hardware acceleration support to Windows 10 for the AV1 video coding format, but taking advantage of it may require a processor or ...

Starting with Windows 10 Insider build 18305, Microsoft has started to add support for the AVIF image format. This support is first being added to Microsoft Paint and File Explorer, but can be ...

Move over H.264/AVC and HEVC, there's a new video streaming codec in town and it's got you in its sites. AV1 is here and it's going to be everywhere before you know it. AV1 is an open, royalty-free ...