AOMedia libaom AV1 3.0 Encoder Released With Better Compression Efficiency

AOMedia libaom 3.0.0 was released on Tuesday by Google engineers as this reference AV1 video encoder.

The 3.0 release delivers on compression efficiency improvements, speed improvements for the real-time mode, new APIs, scaling optimizations, multi-threading performance boosts under the real-time mode, and other improvements. There are also a number of bug fixes.

This libaom 3.0 release was formerly developed as version 2.1 prior to the version bump after 2.1-rc1.

More details on the AOMedia AV1 3.0 encoder changes via this Git commit.

For those wondering about the performance of this CPU-based AV1 encoder, there are benchmarks over on OpenBenchmarking.org of this new release as of the release candidate state when it was called v2.1-rc1. AOM-AV1 is getting faster but still not nearly as fast as SVT-AV1 performance.