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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft has announced that graphics processor partners Intel, AMD and Nvidia are bringing hardware-accelerated AV1/AVIF video compression to new Windows 10 systems this fall. Unfortunately, these ...

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 ...

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 ...

With its latest WHQL driver, AMD has confirmed it has delayed a bug fix to Q3 of 2024 which it had initially intended to release in Q2. The issue is related to AV1 video recording. AMD has released ...

I think AV1 just isn't the best fit for Twitch right now anyway. I'm sure the bandwidth savings would be nice but since it's unlikely the streamer would be able to encode in AV1 it means that twitch ...