The benchmark of Facebook shows AV1 Video Codec very fast

After conducting the testing and evaluation, Facebook engineers confirmed that the newly released AV codec video turned out to be better than expected.

AV1 (codec) video compression technology was released on March 28 and is a product of Alliance for Open Media , an organization consisting of many technology units.

AV1 includes 3 other codecs

AV1 (AOMedia Video 1) started working from 2015, Google, Cisco and Mozilla + Xiph.org together put 3 codecs - VPX, Thor and Daala - into one project, towards creating free codecs.

Two weeks ago, Allian for Open Media announced a public release of AV1, a video compression technology that, according to independent tests, is expected to reduce the average video size by 30% compared to current codecs. Of course, this is not the first time the 'mother' offers attractive numbers when presenting her 'child'.

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AV1 Video Codec is highly anticipated not only by its ability but also by its price

Facebook's benchmark confirms the superiority of AV1

The Facebook engineering team decided to perform its own testing under conditions similar to the actual production environment, not the laboratory. 'Our test showed that AV1 exceeded the 30% target when compared to VP9. Specifically, compared to the X.264 Main Profile, X.264 High Profile and VP9, respectively 50.3%, 46.2% and 34%. '

'We mainly use Standard Definition (SD) and High Definition (HD) videos as this is a popular video quality on Facebook. But because AV1 compresses better when the resolution increases, we conclude that this new compression codec will be even more effective when compressing UHD / 4K or 8K videos' .

The only minus point is that AV1 takes more compression time than other codecs.

AV1 will revolutionize the video stream service

When independent testing succeeds, this technology may in the future replace existing video compression tools, especially with the free model.

Big tech giants like Google, Twitch, Amazon, Microsoft, Hulu . are all interested in AV1 codec and are ready to support their video streaming services. The makers of browsers, software, and silicon also said they would support AV1.

Allian for Open Media hopes that by the middle of 2019, AV1 will be supported on most browsers and stream platforms. By 2020, most devices are capable of supporting AV1 in hardware.

Despite being a technological success, AV1 actually won the copyright arena. Companies with video streaming services have been hunted by patent holders for years and are forced to pay to use video compression technologies.

AV1 will significantly reduce costs, for new companies to easily join the video stream market. This does not mean creating video streaming places like YouTube or Twitch, but the simple things like streaming live video in chat applications will be cheaper and not inferior to big apps.

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