Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by throw0101c 969 days ago
Compared to H.264/AVC, you can get the same level of video quality in ~half the bandwidth (or double your quality for the same bandwidth).

Compared to H.265/HEVC, AV1 has no patents and so anyone can implement it without worrying about licensing (there seem to 3+ groups that need to be paid off).

The trade-off is that it is more computation intensive than H.264 (as is H.265).

1 comments

Self-reply:

Seems that there's now also H.266/VVC:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versatile_Video_Coding

Short 2023 article on H.266 versus AV1:

* https://www.winxdvd.com/video-transcoder/h266-vvc-vs-av1.htm