In a recent development, Android system development manager Arif Dikici confirmed that the Play System update released in March 2024 has switched to VideoLAN’s open-source libdav1d codec, thereby ...

In context: The AV1 video coding format provides an open, royalty-free codec specifically designed for internet video streaming, developed as a successor to Google's VP9. Unlike competing formats like ...

Google is switching to libdav1d for AV1 video decoding on Android. The new development was officially confirmed by Arif Dikici, a member of the Android Video and Image Codecs team. The company even ...

As part of its unveiling of the new iPhone 15, Apple has revealed the phone’s new A17 pro chip will support AV1 video via a “dedicated AV1 decoder”. The dedicated decoder enables more efficient, ...

Krystle Vermes is a Boston-based news reporter for Android Police. She is a graduate of the Suffolk University journalism program, and has more than a decade of experience as a writer and editor in ...

Various streaming services support AV1 playback, while Pixel 10 phones can capture AV1 videos, but AV2 just took a big step ...