Notes on AV1 productization and royalty-free video codecs outlook
summary
Netflix reports 30% catalog coverage for AV1 and measures a ~10% VMAF uplift, 5% more 4K streaming hours, up to 38% fewer quality drops and a ~2% start‑play delay reduction after adopting SVT-AV1 encoder and optimizing the dav1d decoder. AOMedia’s AVM reference software currently yields about 21–23% bitrate savings versus AV1 on random‑access and adaptive streaming tests and up to ~27% on VMAF, but decoding and encoding times remain higher for research code.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction to AV1
- 0:44AV1 productization
- 2:24Netflix deployment
- 4:29AVIF image format
- 5:15Performance results
- 6:31Future video model
- 8:01AVM development
- 10:29AVM technical tools
- 13:52AVM performance metrics
- 17:16Contributing to AVM
- 19:24Conclusion
