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, ...
With AV1 hardware decode on mo­bile devices stuck in the mid-to-low teens as of 2025, and with VVC at zero, it’s clear that the race to supplant H.264 and HEVC will be contested with software-only ...
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As a recap, AV1 is a newer video codec than the commonly-used AVC, also known as H.264. It is much more computationally-intensive both to playback and create, but given that video encoding and ...
The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 won’t launch anytime soon, but some info regarding it just surfaced. According to a new rumor, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 will end up offering AV1 decoding. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 ...
Intel has just announced that it will support AV1 video coding technology in the new Intel Arc GPUs. The tech will offer hardware-accelerated encoding that may have a huge impact on video streaming ...