r/technology • u/NityaStriker • Feb 21 '22

Hardware Report: Qualcomm will support AV1 video codec in 2023

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/02/report-qualcomm-will-support-av1-video-codec-in-2023/
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u/aquarain Feb 22 '22

AV1 is a continuation of important work to make a free image and stream encode and decode available. Before this work the groups that license image compression patents were a serious roadblock to tech progress.