SVT-AV1 that started out as an open-source AV1 video encoder at Intel and more recently an an Alliance of Open Media project quietly released SVT-AV1 v2.1 last week
Emerging codecs like AV1, VP9, and HEVC are hardly newcomers to the streaming scene, and their implementation and breadth of industry support-particularly AV1 s-have grown by leaps and bounds. Yet the long-in-the-tooth AVC/MPEG-4 Part 10 just won t go away, largely because of its tried-and-true every-device support, even though the superior efficiencies of more advanced codecs are legion. So how close to obsolescence is AVC in 2024? Meta s Hassene Tmar, Netflix s Andrey Norkin, AMD s Sean Gardner, and Help Me Stream s Tim Siglin weigh in during this clip from Streaming Media Connect 2024.
SVT-AV1 1.6 is now available as the latest version for this leading CPU-based AV1 encoder that is now enjoying 30~40% faster performance with high quality presets.