Post #1086575
2026-04-04 21:58 UTC
Here’s why it doesn’t matter:
“AOMedia Video 1 (AV1) is an open, royalty-free video coding format initially designed for video transmissions over the Internet. It was developed as a successor to VP9 by the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia),[3] a consortium founded in 2015 that includes semiconductor firms, video on demand providers, video content producers, software development companies and web browser vendors.”
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1
Replies (2)
-
@Justifier@lemmy.world 2026-04-04 22:30
Here’s why it does matter Most server hardware thats out there right now doesn’t support av1 encoding, so all of those, literally tens of thousands of them in thousands of spread out data centers have to be replaced with brand new +$1,500 a pop cards that do support it before they can use it
-
@mschae@discuss.mschae23.de 2026-04-04 22:21
Can't be too sure about that: The whole patent system should just be abolished. And if we can't achieve that, at least software patents.