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Explore the AV1 video codec in this 43-minute conference talk from linux.conf.au. Delve into the development, deployment, and technical aspects of this next-generation codec created by the Alliance for Open Media. Learn about its advantages over proprietary competitors, including better compression and royalty-free licensing. Discover the challenges of moving from specification to production, current deployment status, and efforts to create an AV1 encoder in Rust. Gain insights into AV1's inner workings, comparing it to VP9 in areas such as partitioning, inter prediction, transforms, quantization, and entropy coding. Examine AV1 hardware developments, optimized software decoders, and encoding efforts like the rav1e project. Suitable for a technical audience, no prior signal processing experience is required.
