This feature ships an AV1 encoder in Chrome desktop, specifically optimized for video conferencing with WebRTC integration.
Motivation
AV1 encode is requested by a number of RTC applications, including Duo, Meet, and Webex. The primary benefits of AV1 are: - better compression efficiency to reduce bandwidth consumption and improve visual quality - Enabling video for users on very low bandwidth networks (offering video at 30kbps and lower) - Significant screen sharing efficiency improvements over VP9 and other codecs We are also promoting this launch to enable easier testing and experimentation with AV1 RTC calls.
Documentation
Specification
Status in Chromium
Enabled by default (tracking bug) in:
- Chrome for desktop release 89
Consensus & Standardization
After a feature ships in Chrome, the values listed here are not guaranteed to be up to date.
- Positive
- No signal
- No signal
- Positive
Owner
Last updated on 2021-01-23
Comments
Code already checked into Chrome, this feature release is enabling the flag by default