AV1
AOMedia Video 1 (AV1) is an open, royalty-free video coding format initially designed for video transmissions over the Internet. It was developed as a successor to VP9 by the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia), a consortium founded in 2015 that includes semiconductor firms, video on demand providers, video content producers, software development companies and web browser vendors. The AV1 bitstream specification includes a reference video codec. In 2018, Facebook conducted testing that approximated real-world conditions, and the AV1 reference encoder achieved 34%, 46.2%, and 50.3% higher data compression than libvpx-vp9, x264 High profile, and x264 Main profile respectively.
| Internet media type | video/AV1, video/webm; codecs="av01.*" |
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| Developed by | Alliance for Open Media |
| Initial release | 28 March 2018 |
| Latest release | 1.0.0 Errata 1 8 January 2019 |
| Type of format | Video coding format |
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| Extended from | |
| Standard | AOM AV1 |
| Open format? | Yes |
| Free format? | Yes, See ยง Patent claims |
| Website | aomedia |
Like VP9, but unlike H.264 (AVC) and H.265 (HEVC), AV1 has a royalty-free licensing model that does not hinder adoption in open-source projects.
AVIF is an image file format that uses AV1 compression algorithms.