FFmpeg, a video processing command tool widely used, has begun support for NVIDIA's NVENC AV1 video encoder. Early reviews have discussed the performance benefit of lesser bit rates, but in surprising ...

Every year the Moscow State University (MSU) Graphics and Media Lab releases multiple codec comparisons that are essential reading for any company that delivers streaming video to its viewers. This ...

NVIDIA has added support to the open-source FFmpeg multimedia library to allow for the advantages of accelerated AV1 video encoding for compatible GPUs through the VDPAU API while utilizing the ...

When I first tested AV1 encoding back in August 2018 encoding times were glacial and seriously detracted from the potential usability of the codec. Table 1 from that story tells the tale. Unless ...

The most noteworthy changes for most users are a native VVC decoder ... It can be argued that this is not a useful change, but instead a backwards step. Why promote the use of the VVC (aka H.266) ...

We've mentioned the AV1 codec a couple of times already. AV1 is a royalty-free codec and offers improved compression compared to vp9 or hevc, the video bandwidth reduction can run upwards to 30 ...