jbz<p>🎬 AV1 is supposed to make streaming better, so why isn’t everyone using it? <br>—<span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@verge" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>verge</span></a></span></p><p>「 Netflix, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Meta banded together to develop video compression’s latest evolution: AV1. The companies say the video codec is around 30 percent more efficient compared to other standards like HEVC and the Google-developed VP9, allowing it to deliver higher-quality video at a lower bandwidth 」</p><p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/tech/635020/av1-streaming-netflix-youtube-google-adoption" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theverge.com/tech/635020/av1-s</span><span class="invisible">treaming-netflix-youtube-google-adoption</span></a></p><p><a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/av1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>av1</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/codecs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>codecs</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a></p>