In the April ecosystem update, I talked about the dav1d 0.3.0 release and the performance improvements it brought with it, so it’s very exciting to see Firefox use dav1d by default! Sponsored by the Alliance for Open Media, dav1d is a joint effort between the French non-profit VideoLAN and the greater FFmpeg open source audio/video community. Firefox 67 is also the first time the AV1 decoder has switched to dav1d by default. With the release of Firefox 67, AV1 decoding is now enabled by default on all desktop platforms (Windows, OSX and Linux) for both 32-bit and 64-bit systems. This will surely be another step towards increasing the AV1 adoption.įirefox 67 release makes AV1 decoding default on all desktop platforms # Onc of the announcements out of Google I/O was that the newest version of Android, codenamed Q, will support AV1 by default. May was also the month when the annual Google I/O conference was held. There was another PR merged that reduced the memory consumption by 35-70% across all presets! With so many new features, it was no suprise to see Phoronix report the performance boosts during their testing.Ī reddit user Balance-, noted that SVt-AV1 now offered higher quality than x264, x265 & VP9 for the first time. There were also 40 PRs merged in the month of May. May also saw the most number of commits to the SVT-AV1 Github repo as shown by the graph below.
Support for 4 and 5 layers prediction structures.Trellis quantized coefficient optimization.Deblocking / CDEF / Restoration filters.8 bit / 10 bit 4:2:0 up to 4K60p resolutions.
In May, version 0.5.0 was released with the following features: Let’s start with SVT-AV1 encoder, the current encoder of choice for Netflix, being developed by the folks at Intel. May was another amazing month for the AV1 codec! We saw great progress in the SVT-AV1 encoder, Android update news and some surprising news out of China! SVT-AV1 is making strides! #
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