If you are unfamiliar with the AV1 codec well it is the successor to VP9 which was in the same class of h.264 which was and still is prolific on the internet. AV1 is a big jump over h264…
MediaTek was early to implemented AV1 in their Dimensity smartphone chips since 2019. And if you aren’t aware those are in a lot of Chinese smartphones.
There is now a decent chance you own and use a device that supports AV1 decoding. This means that AV1 I think is going to take over the internet in the next few years.
Although AV1 is free and open source, it is a result of corporate socialism and Google’s CIA influence. It probably wouldn’t even be possible in the capitalist framework otherwise because big surprise intellectual property isn’t actually good for innovation or much else.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1 - https://www.xda-developers.com/av1/ - https://www.androidauthority.com/av1-codec-1113318/
Google began the work on AV1 before 2016 it was called VP10, the successor to VP9.
They had to pull in a ton of companies and organizations to form the Alliance for Open Media which releases AV1 free, open source for the benefit of the ecosystem.
Even then they have to do weird things because of existing patents.
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It’s just a codec. It won’t benefit surveillance directly.
Yes where there is streaming video but I think this is more about making money.
Yes I have heard mixed numbers from 10% to 30% savings. It does not encode faster than H265 but the point is for hardware acceleration. GPUs with AV1 encode are not really available yet (they will be soon) except for in data centers. The first step is putting decode in consumer devices.