Royalty-free AV1 video codecs are becoming increasingly popular with support for AV1 encoding from Nvidia, AMD, and Intel’s newest unique displays, which have already been announced by several popular software programs as supporting AV1 encoding.
Now, the popular video processing command line tool FFmpeg has also supported the NVIDIA NVENC AV1 encoder, which claims to offer better quality at a lower bit rate, 75 to 100 percent higher than HEVC (H.265) encoding.
In 2018, the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) released AV1 (AOMedia Video Codec 1.0), a next-generation video codec. Developed in collaboration with the Open Media Alliance, the codec encodes 4K UHD video with an average compression rate 30% higher than similar encoders.
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Series features the 8th generation NVIDIA Video Encoder, or NVENC, which adds support for AV1. The new GeForce RTX 4090 delivers a huge performance boost with the 3rd generation RT core, 4th generation Tensor core, 8th generation NVIDIA Dual AV1 encoder, and the ability to reach 1TB/s bandwidth. 24GB of Micron G6X memory capable of 1TB/s bandwidth. The GeForce RTX 4090 is up to 2x faster than the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti in 3D rendering, artificial intelligence, and video export.
Previously, AV1 codec support was announced for OBS Studio, Firefox, Cutscene Pro, and the Android subsystem of Microsoft Windows 11, WSA.
