AV1

“take a test sample of YUV420 video and AV1 encode it to an extremely low bitrate”

“go with AV1 for higher efficiency. It's currently the best and already pretty widely supported.”

“AV1 decode works well enough even on quite old devices, and it has more favorable quality and size”

“Lots of hardware supports it and you don't need hardware support for many other cases.”

“AV1 excels at low BPP images, with or without the last 6 years of improvements.”

“The problem with AV1 is it requires a massive amount of compute resources.”

“The answer is pretty obviously AV1 if you care about delivering content to actual end-users”

“much better compression than h.264 at almost all levels of compute”

“codecs like AV1 which are effectively not patent encumbered”

“I actually do prefer newer codecs when I am using a newer system, such as AV1”

“AV1 is solution to these video format licensing problems.”

“It is a lot better to send a stable and visually ok stream with AV1 at 30KBps”

“packet loss is then not as impactful on a 30KBps stream with AV1 than a 50KBps VP8 stream”

“AV1 is still prohibatively expensive both for the server and clients for software encoding/decoding”

“software encoding was perfectly fine, even on mobile”

“Just because AOM/Google says that wont charge a royalty doesn't mean AV1 isn't covered by patents owned by others.”

“AV1’s open, royalty-free promise in question as Dolby sues Snapchat over codec”

“open codecs can still be encumbered by patents and the holders will sue”

“the majority of devices still don't have AV1 hardware decoding support”

“They have been created with the express purpose of avoiding incidents like this.”

“AV1 matches or exceeds H.265 in compression efficiency, so for greenfield projects there's little reason to reach for the legacy codecs.”

“AV1 and friends are usually too heavy in those settings”

“AV1 is probably the most advanced video codec that has wide support.”

“I have re-encoded H.265 to AV1 and not only gotten smaller files that playback better on low-end hardware”

“It's only royalty free from AOM, it doesn't mean it isn't patent encumbered.”

“AV1 would most likely result in slower encodes that look worse.”

“This is why we have av1, ogg, etc. with most of the hard research re-done just to sidestep those pesky patents.”

“Some Sony TV's only hardware accelerate AV1 content through streaming services, and not through Blueray and USB”

“AOMedia already made AV1 a free and open standard”

“AV1 is still worse in practice than H.265 for high-fidelity (high bitrate) encoding”

“AV1 is quickly becoming the ubiquitous codec with the closest rival VVC offering little to offset the licensing troubles”

“Publicly-available AV1 encoders (still) have a tendency to over-flatten anything that is low-contrast enough”

“seems its difficulty for long time to be played on low power devices hindered its adoption”

“AV1 is good enough that the cost of not licensing might outweigh the cost of higher bandwidth.”

“The industry has clearly aligned behind AV1 as a universal, open, royalty-free image/video distribution format”

“AV1 will end up slightly smaller (5-10%) with slightly more retention of film grain in darker areas”

“focus on royalty-free video formats like VP9, AV1, and the future AV2”

“AV1 is amazing and with a bit more funding and hardware support it could get us out of this entire mess.”

“Royalty-free formats like AV1 avoid the problem.”

“AV1 delivers higher compression efficiency for 4K and 8K videos, reducing bandwidth costs without sacrificing quality.”