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.