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Intel Releases SVT-AV1 0.9 For Quicker AV1 Video Encoding   Software   2022-01-22
Intel To Ring In 2022 With New, Faster AV1 Encoder Release   Software   2021-12-31

AV1 Linux & Open-Source News

Zink Seeing VA-API Video Acceleration Implemented Over Vulkan Video   Mesa   2024-10-04
Steam Remote Play Adds AV1 Video Streaming Support Plus More Linux Fixes   Valve   2024-10-02
CachyOS Optimizing More Packages With PGO For Up To ~10% Better Performance   Arch Linux   2024-09-29
Google Increases AVIF Image Format Support With Google Search Support   Google   2024-09-03
Intel oneVPL Preps For Battlemage, Adds AI-Based Super Resolution   Intel   2024-09-01
Big Video Encoding Rework Lands For AMD Open-Source Mesa 24.3 Driver   Radeon   2024-08-23
Intel Discontinues High-Speed, Open-Source H.265/HEVC Encoder Project   Intel   2024-08-21
SVT-AV1 2.2 Delivers More Performance Improvements   Multimedia   2024-08-21
Linux 6.11 Kernel Performance On The AMD Ryzen 9 9000 Series   AMD   2024-08-19
Radeon "RADV" Vulkan Driver Now Handles 12-bit AV1 Video Decoding   Radeon   2024-08-16
Mesa 24.3 Radeon VCN Adds HDR Metadata Support For AV1 Encoder   Radeon   2024-07-24
Intel oneAPI VPL 2024Q2 GPU Runtime Prepares For VVC Decode   Intel   2024-07-22
OBS Studio 30.2 Released With Native NVENC Encode On Linux, More Shared Texture Support   Multimedia   2024-07-12
libavif 1.1 Released For Improving AVIF Image Encoding   Free Software   2024-07-12
Shotcut 24.06 Supports SVT-AV1 Encode & AVIF Images, Many Fixes   Free Software   2024-06-28
RKVDEC2 Driver Posted For Accelerated Video Decoding On Newer Rockchip SoCs   Hardware   2024-06-16
OBS Studio 30.2 Beta Brings Native NVENC Encoder Support On Linux   Free Software   2024-06-08
VCN5 AV1 Encode & More AMD RDNA4 RADV Support Land In Mesa 24.2   Radeon   2024-06-01
Dav1d 1.4.2 Provides More AVX2 & AVX-512 Performance Optimizations   Multimedia   2024-05-31
Kdenlive 24.05 Brings Multi-Format Rendering, Automatic Subtitle Translations   KDE   2024-05-31
SVT-AV1 2.1 Released With Yet More Performance Improvements   Multimedia   2024-05-28
Firefox 126 Available - Adds "Linux" To The Android User Agent String   Mozilla   2024-05-13
AMD Aims For AMF Decode In FFmpeg, Questioned Over Vulkan Video Commitment   AMD   2024-05-10
Mesa 24.0.7 & Mesa 24.1-rc3 Provide Latest Open-Source OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers   Mesa   2024-05-08
AMD 3rd Gen EPYC "Milan" Sees Some Performance Benefits To Ubuntu 24.04 LTS   AMD   2024-05-02
FFmpeg Makes Progress On Dolby Vision Support   Multimedia   2024-04-23
Intel Media Driver 2024Q1 Brings Arrow Lake H Support   Intel   2024-04-22
Intel oneVPL GPU Runtime 2024Q1 Brings VP9 Fix & AV1 Refinements   Intel   2024-04-19
MPV 0.38 Media Player Released With New Options & Fixes   Multimedia   2024-04-17
Firefox 125 Adds AV1 Support In Encrypted Media Extensions, Other New Features   Mozilla   2024-04-15
Open-Source Radeon Driver Enables Support For Vulkan Video H.264/H.265 Encode   Radeon   2024-04-11
FFmpeg 7.0 Released With Native VVC Decoding & Multi-Threaded CLI   Multimedia   2024-04-05
Servo Web Engine Adds WOFF2 Web Fonts, HTML Tables By Default   Free Software   2024-03-30
Intel VA-API 2.21 Library Adds Intel Xe Kernel Driver Support, AV1 & Windows Fixes   Multimedia   2024-03-26
Intel Releases SVT-AV1 2.0 For Even Faster AV1 Encoding   Intel   2024-03-15
OBS Studio 30.1 Released With AV1 Support For VA-API & PipeWire Video Capture   Multimedia   2024-03-12
Mesa's VDPAU State Tracker Adds Support For AV1 Decoding   Mesa   2024-03-07
GStreamer 1.24 Released With Vulkan H.264/H.265 Decode & Many Enhancements   Multimedia   2024-03-04
Mesa 24.1 Enables AV1 LTR Encode Support For RDNA3 GPUs With VCN4   Radeon   2024-02-29
RADV Driver Lands Vulkan Video AV1 Decode For Mesa 24.1   Mesa   2024-02-27
dav1d 1.4 Released With More AVX-512 Optimizations, RISC-V & LoongArch CPU Support   Multimedia   2024-02-17
AMD Posts Linux Driver Patches For Video Core Next 5 "VCN 5.0"   Radeon   2024-02-08
Mesa Merge Request Opened For RADV Driver With VK_KHR_video_decode_av1   Mesa   2024-02-02
OBS Studio 30.1 Beta Released With AV1 For VA-API & AV1 For WebRTC/WHIP Output   Multimedia   2024-02-02
Vulkan Video Finally Introduces AV1 Video Decoding Extension   Vulkan   2024-02-01
Steam Beta Adds VA-API DRM Video Acceleration For Remote Play   Valve   2024-01-25
OBS Merges FFmpeg VA-API AV1 Support   Multimedia   2024-01-24
Intel Media Driver 2023Q4 Improves Video Acceleration For Meteor Lake & Arrow Lake   Intel   2024-01-03
NVIDIA's Open-Source Kernel Driver & Maturing Wayland Support Were Great In 2023   NVIDIA   2024-01-02
Rav1e 0.7.0 Released For Xiph.Org's Latest Rust-Based AV1 Encoding   Multimedia   2023-12-31
FFmpeg Begins Landing Support For AOMedia's IAMF - Immersive Audio Model and Formats   Multimedia   2023-12-19
Shotcut 23.12 Released With Wayland Crash Fix, Upgraded AV1 Encode/Decode   Multimedia   2023-12-18
SVT-AV1 1.8 Brings More Performance Improvements Plus ARM Neon SIMD Optimizations   Multimedia   2023-12-13
OBS Studio 30.0.1 Released With Crash Fixes   Free Software   2023-12-10
Flowblade 2.12 Video Editor Brings Faster Proxy Rendering, Continued GTK4 Porting   Multimedia   2023-12-04
RadeonSI Gallium3D Enables VCN Encoder Intra-Refresh Support   Radeon   2023-11-18
OBS Studio 30.0 Released With Intel QSV AV1 On Linux, WHIP/WebRTC Output   Multimedia   2023-11-11
FFmpeg 6.1 Released With Vulkan Video Decoding, VA-API AV1 Encode   Multimedia   2023-11-11
AOMedia Announces Royalty-Free IAMF Audio Container Specification   Standards   2023-11-10
Mesa 24.0 Improving Radeon VCE/UVD Video Encoding Quality   Radeon   2023-11-04
Mozilla Eyes Removal Of Theora Support In Firefox   Mozilla   2023-11-01
Wayland Progress, Ryzen AI & Linux Benchmarks That Made For An Exciting October   Phoronix   2023-11-01
Apple Announces The M3 / M3 Pro / M3 Max   Apple   2023-10-30
Google Chrome To Remove Theora Video Codec Support   Google   2023-10-29
Intel Video Acceleration Drivers Begin Preparing For Arrow Lake S   Intel   2023-10-24
AMD Advanced Media Acceleration "AMA" 1.0 SDK Released   AMD   2023-10-13
Higher Quality AV1 Video Encoding Now Available For Radeon Graphics On Linux   Radeon   2023-10-12
Libva 2.20 Released For Video Acceleration API   Multimedia   2023-10-09
dav1d 1.3 Yields Lower Memory Use, More Arm NEON Optimizations   Multimedia   2023-10-07
Google Releases libaom 3.7 AV1 Encoder With More Optimizations   Multimedia   2023-09-01
Intel's SVT-AV1 1.7 Video Encoder Delivers Faster Performance   Intel   2023-08-29
libavif 1.0 Released With Stable ABI, Experimental AV2 Support   Free Software   2023-08-28
AV1 Video Decoding Added To Mesa's VirGL For QEMU/KVM Guests   Mesa   2023-08-10
AMD Launches The Radeon PRO W7500/W7600 RDNA3 GPUs   Radeon   2023-08-03
Intel Media Driver 2023Q2 Preps More For Meteor Lake, More Arc Graphics Fixes   Intel   2023-08-02
Qualcomm Rolling Out "Iris" Video Encoder/Decoder Driver For Linux   Hardware   2023-07-31
Intel Releases libva 2.19 VA-API Video Acceleration Library For Windows & Linux   Multimedia   2023-07-12
AMD AMF SDK 1.4.30 Released For Multimedia Processing On Windows & Linux   AMD   2023-07-07
Mediatek Gains Stateless AV1/HEVC Codecs, Intel Atom ISP Driver Getting Fit   Multimedia   2023-07-07
Microsoft Adds Direct3D 12 Powered AV1 Video Encoding To Mesa   Microsoft   2023-06-28
SVT-AV1 1.6 Squeezes Out Even More Performance For CPU-Based AV1 Encoding   Multimedia   2023-06-19
Intel Announces Faster Arc Pro A60 & A60M Graphics   Intel   2023-06-06
Dav1d 1.2.1 Released With More Performance Optimizations   Multimedia   2023-06-06
FFmpeg's Next Release Will Be Exciting With Vulkan Video Decode, More Vulkan Filters   Multimedia   2023-05-31
Firefox 113 Available With Animated AV1 Image Support (AVIS)   Mozilla   2023-05-09
Experimental AV2 Support Added To AVIF Image Encoder   Free Software   2023-05-05
dav1d 1.2 Released With More SIMD Optimizations   Multimedia   2023-05-05
Chrome 114 Beta Brings CSS Headline Balancing, CHIPS, Popover API   Google   2023-05-04
OBS Studio 29.1 Released With AV1/HEVC Streaming Over Enhanced RTMP   Multimedia   2023-05-03
Chrome 113 Released With Faster AV1 Video Encoding, WebGPU By Default   Google   2023-05-02
Intel Releases SVT-AV1 v1.5 With More Tuning & Optimizations   Multimedia   2023-04-28
AMD Adds AV1 Video Encoding Support To Mesa VA-API   Radeon   2023-04-27
RadeonSI Change Allows For Balancing RDNA3 Video Transcoding Between Multiple Engines   Mesa   2023-04-17
Intel oneVPL GPU Runtime 2023Q1 Adds AV1 Error Resilient Mode   Intel   2023-04-13
Firefox 113 Beta Adds Animated AV1 Image Support   Mozilla   2023-04-11
Intel Media Driver 2023Q1 Adds Meteor Lake AV1 Error-Resilient Video Encoding   Intel   2023-04-10
VVenC 1.8 Released For Speeding Up Open-Source H.266/VVC Encoding   Multimedia   2023-04-06
Intel Linux Improvements, AMD openSIL, Zen 4 3D V-Cache & Other March Highlights   Phoronix   2023-04-02
New AMD Ryzen CPUs, Intel Sapphire Rapids, Rust Adoption & More In Q1   Phoronix   2023-03-31
VP9/AV1 Simulcast Support For WebRTC Coming In Chrome 113   Multimedia   2023-03-30
OBS Studio 29.1 Beta 1 Released With New AV1/HEVC Streaming Over RTMP   Free Software   2023-03-29
OBS Studio Lands AV1 & HEVC RTMP Streaming Support   Multimedia   2023-03-27
Experimental RADV Vulkan Video Decoding For VP9   Mesa   2023-03-13
NVIDIA VA-API Driver 0.0.9 Released With YUV444 Support   NVIDIA   2023-03-12
LibreELEC 11 Released With GBM/V4L2 HDR Support On x86_64, More ARM Hardware   Multimedia   2023-03-06
Linux 6.3-rc1 Brings File-System Optimizations, HID-BPF, More Intel & AMD Features   Linux Kernel   2023-03-05
Linux 6.2, Linux 6.3 Developments, KDE Plasma 5.27 & More Made For An Exciting Month   Phoronix   2023-02-28
FFmpeg 6.0 Released With NVIDIA NVENC AV1, VA-API Improvements   Multimedia   2023-02-28
dav1d 1.1 Released With More AVX-512 Improvements   Multimedia   2023-02-14
FFmpeg Is Ripe For More AVX-512 Optimizations   Multimedia   2023-02-11
Initial Intel Vulkan Video Support Lands In Mesa 23.1   Intel   2023-02-08
AOM AV1 3.6 Brings More Performance & Efficiency Optimizations   Multimedia   2023-02-08
Mesa 23.1 RADV Driver Lands Vulkan Video Decoding For H.264/H.265   Radeon   2023-02-07
FFmpeg 6.0 Will Be Big With AV1 Hardware Decoding, Many Other Features   Multimedia   2023-02-06
Linux 6.3 Features, Intel Sapphire Rapids & More Made For An Exciting January   Phoronix   2023-01-31
Mozilla Comes Out Neutral On JPEG-XL Image Format Support   Mozilla   2023-01-31
Vulkan SDK Updated With Vulkan Video Support   Vulkan   2023-01-30
AMD Sends In More RDNA3 Graphics Driver Fixes For Linux 6.3   Radeon   2023-01-28
Intel oneVPL GPU Runtime 22.6.5 Brings AV1 & VP9 Encode Improvements   Intel   2023-01-26
GStreamer 1.22 Released With Improved AV1 Support, Better WebRTC & AMD AMF Additions   Multimedia   2023-01-23
Linux 6.3 Features Expected From AMD Auto IBRS To Pluton CRB TPM2 & Dropping Old Code   Linux Kernel   2023-01-23
VK_MESA_video_decode_av1: Early Vulkan AV1 Decoding For Open-Source Radeon Driver   Mesa   2023-01-17
Intel's FFmpeg Cartwheel 2022Q4 Released - Raptor Lake P, Better AV1 & HEVC Encode   Intel   2023-01-16
Kodi 20 Released With VA-API AV1 Support, Steam Deck Controls Support   Multimedia   2023-01-15
Updated WebKit Adds Experimental WebCodecs AV1, dav1d Decoder   Free Software   2023-01-13
Intel Media Driver 2022Q4 Adds Meteor Lake Enablement   Intel   2023-01-13
Mesa 22.3.3 Brings More Intel & Radeon Driver Fixes, KDE Plasma Hang Workaround   Mesa   2023-01-11
OBS Studio 29 Released With AV1 Encode Additions, Upward Compression Filter   Multimedia   2023-01-07
An MGLRU Performance Regression Fix Is On The Way Plus Another Optimization   Linux Kernel   2023-01-06
VP9 & AV1 Vulkan Video Extensions Expected Next Year   Vulkan   2022-12-22
Vulkan Video 1.0 Extensions Published As Part Of Vulkan 1.3.238   Vulkan   2022-12-19
NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver 0.0.8 Introduces New Direct Backend   NVIDIA   2022-12-18
Experimental RADV Vulkan Video Gets H.264 & H.265 Decode Working   Mesa   2022-12-15
Mesa 22.3.1 Released - Led By Intel & Radeon Driver Fixes   Mesa   2022-12-15
Blender 3.4 Now Available With Wayland, Intel Open Path Guiding Integration   Free Software   2022-12-07
Intel Publishes Latest FFmpeg Patches For Better GPU Video Encode/Decode   Intel   2022-12-01
SVT-AV1 1.4 & Rav1e 0.6 Released For Open-Source AV1 Encoding   Multimedia   2022-12-01
OBS Studio 29 Beta Brings AV1 Encode For AMD & Intel GPUs   Multimedia   2022-11-23
Godot 4.0 Engine Adds Movie Maker Mode   Linux Gaming   2022-11-14
Google Releases Lyra 1.3 For Advancing This Very Low Bitrate Audio Codec   Google   2022-11-11
FFmpeg Lands NVIDIA NVENC AV1 Encoding Support   NVIDIA   2022-11-06
OBS Studio 28.1 Released With Various Fixes, Updated NVENC Presets   Free Software   2022-11-01
Intel Lands An AV1 QSV Encoder In FFmpeg   Intel   2022-10-30
Google Chrome Is Already Preparing To Deprecate JPEG-XL   Google   2022-10-29
Intel Engineers Release SVT-AV1 1.3 With More Optimizations, Tuning For Better AV1 Encode   Multimedia   2022-10-20
Intel Publishes New Media Driver, oneVPL GPU Runtime "2022Q3" Releases   Intel   2022-10-14
VA-API Library 2.16 Released With Various Improvements   Multimedia   2022-10-08
Google Announces Lyra V2 Low Bit-Rate Voice Codec   Google   2022-09-30
Microsoft Adds AV1 Decode Support To Their Mesa D3D12 Driver   Microsoft   2022-09-30
NVIDIA Beta Driver Update Revises Vulkan Video Support   NVIDIA   2022-09-28