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		mjevans 12 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PgAssistant: OSS tool to help devs understand and ... Licensing, patents (as far as I've heard anyway). NEARLY everything can use AV1 and you don't need your clients to install a licensed codec if their OS didn't happen to include one. https://caniuse.com/av1 Far more than https://caniuse.com/hevc

kirici 12 months ago [–]

libaom-av1 and libsvtav1 are both AV1, the former being the reference implementation and the latter simply far faster

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