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

• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/webrtc/issues/detail?id=11404

Specification

Specification link

Status: Specification being incubated in a Community Group

Status in Chromium

Blink components: Internals>Media>Codecs

Implementation status: Enabled by default (tracking bug)

Consensus & Standardization

• Firefox: Positive
• Edge: No signal
• Safari: No signal
• Web Developers: Positive

Owner

• jaikk@chromium.org

Comments

Code already checked into Chrome, this feature release is enabling the flag by default

Last updated on 2021-07-18