May was another amazing month for the AV1 codec! We saw great progress in the SVT-AV1 encoder, Android update news and some surprising news out of China!
SVT-AV1 is making strides!
Android Q gets AV1 support
Visionular Aurora AV1 codec claims it’s faster and better than x265
Another piece of interesting news was the Visionular Aurora AV1 codec that I first read about in this summary of LiveVideoStackCon Shanghai 2019. In this presentation it is claimed that Aurora AV1 beats libaom encoder by ~33% and x265 by ~42% on VMAF model.
From Visionular website, Auorara claims to improve encoding speed by 32.2% against x265 veryslow which is very surprising and the first time I’m hearing about an AV1 encoder being better in quality and faster than x265. It’ll be interesting to see if we find out more info and are able to test this encoder in the coming months.
BBC compares AV1 & VVC
Amphion Semiconductor Hardware decoder
Read the rest of the story @ https://www.singhkays.com/blog/av1-ecosystem-update-may-2019/
