#BEST VIDEO CODEC FOR YOUTUBE FOR FREE#
The AV1 codec has been available for free use on Googlesource since 2018. YouTube has been an early adopter of AV1 and has been testing the video format since 2017. Media content distributors such as Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, Apple, and Google are members of AOMedia alongside hardware providers such as Intel, AMD, ARM, and Nvidia. But the list of AV1 supporters doesn’t end there. This has since been followed by Microsoft’s and Apple’s native browsers. AV1 hopes to avoid these difficulties and, at the same time, provide a technically advanced solution over previous formats.ĪV1 codec was initially suitable for use in Chrome and Firefox. This affects commercial use of HEVC since streaming providers require a license from MPEG as well as other licensing partners, including individual patent holders. Many of the algorithms are patented, which has always made it difficult for third-party providers to launch a comparable codec.
The lack of competition for MPEG formats is not only due to their technological superiority. But MPEG formats have become the standard for highly compressed video files on DVDs, Blu-rays, and digital television as well. Streaming providers preferred HEVC for their 4K content.
Over the last few years, MPEG codes including MPEG1, MPEG2, and MPEG4 variants ASP (DivX/XviD), AVC (H.264) and HEVC (H.265) were the measure of all things when it came to video streaming online. AV1 codec is a performance-strong and license-free video codec and the brainchild of an alliance between Google’s VP10, Mozilla’s Daala and Cisco’s Thor. AV1 is touted to be the new video format for the Internet and is supposed to replace the well-known and proven MPEG format.
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