Tech’s biggest players are all in on AV1, but competing codecs and technical limitations might be holding it back.
Tech’s biggest players are all in on AV1, but competing codecs and technical limitations might be holding it back.
Emma Roth is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO.
When you jump into a video on YouTube or Netflix, a lot happens very quickly behind the scenes. Video data is rapidly downloaded to your device, which then has to unpack and normalize that information into a smooth, hiccup-free stream. The process of encoding and decoding
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