


" The contact cited three reasons, which I'll paraphrase: When I contacted Intel during testing, I received the following response: "Using SVT-AV1 at this time would be potentially a misrepresentation of the project as you’d be evaluating codec capabilities that are not currently implemented or are a. SVT-AV1 is an AV1 codec implementation created by Intel and Netflix and is available on GitHub. During the testing process, I sent questions and encoding strings to Google, which was kind enough to lend assistance. libaom, the AOMedia codec in FFmpeg, v 2.0.0Īomenc is AOMedia’s standalone encoding executable and is available here.Intel/Netflix’s SVT-AV1 codec, v 0.8.4 confirmed with version 0.804-22.My focus for the review was developer-level products for integration into an existing encoding workflow as opposed to commercial cloud encoding or standalone encoders.

In short, in 24 months, hardware support appeared, encoding became affordable, and AV1 became a much more realistic competitor to HEVC. Finally, the emergence of third-party AV1 codecs have increased both the quality and encoding speed of the AV1 codec. Second, over the past two years, encoding times for the AOMedia AV1 codec have dropped from about 2500x real time to about 2x slower than HEVC. First, in early 2020, AV1-enabled smart TVs hit the market, right on the 2-year schedule announced back in 2018 by the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia). While 2018 was the year AV1 became known, 2020 will be the year that AV1 became interesting, primarily because of three developments.
