AV1 Ecosystem Update: June 2019

Kay Singh
2 min readJul 22, 2019

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It’s been a pretty busy for me professionally which is why this month’s AV1 ecosystem update is coming in pretty late. It’s been one of the most exciting months for AV1 development and a lot to catch up on! With so much news this month, it is starting to feel like we’re at the cusp of something big! ( which we hope AV1 will be )

Youtube pauses AV1 rollout

Realtek demonstrates first 8K AV1 Decoder and 4K UHD Set-top Box SoCs

Conferencing!

There were two conferences in June, AllThingsRTC 2019 and then Big Apple Video, where a lot of new information about AV1 was shared. We heard updates on the following topics which are all covered later in this update:

  • libaom AV1 encoder
  • Aurora AV1 encoder
  • SVT-AV1 encoder
  • rav1e AV1 encoder
  • NGCodec FPGA encoder for AV1
  • EVE AV1 encoder

Past, Present & Future of AV1

Visionular’s Aurora AV1 encoder shows promise

SVT-AV1 v0.6.0 released

Rav1e + Vimeo = ❤️

NGCodec shows off AV1 encoding with their FPGA encoders

Twitch talks about their AV1 adoption plan

EVE AV1 encoder

Ronald Bultje, who designed VP9 at Google previously, introduced the world to Efficient Video Encoder (EVE) for AV1 at Big Apple Video. EVE is a commercial encoder that promises to provide the best visual quality amongst the AV1 encoders. Here are some interesting slides from Ronald’s presentation especially the quality comparison versus libaom AV1. The whole presentation can also be viewed below.

Cisco’s real-time AV1 video encoder

Millicast’s real-time AV1 video encoder

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