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
Read the rest of the story @ https://www.singhkays.com/blog/av1-ecosystem-update-june-2019/
