Today we are excited to announce that Netflix has started streaming AV1 to TVs.

We need an alternative to JPEG that a) is widely supported, b) has better compression efficiency and c) has a wider feature set.

Today we are excited to announce that Netflix has started streaming AV1 to our Android mobile app.

First official release, published during the Video Dev Days 2019 in Tokyo.

Firefox now supports AV1, a next-generation video codec, on all major desktop platforms.

dav1d is good enough that it has an official release, dav1d now covers all the spec and features of AV1 (including 12bits), dav1d is very fast on modern desktop and it is getting faster on mobile chips.

Mozilla loves AV1 for two reasons: AV1 is royalty-free, so anyone can use it free of charge.