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Hulu has joined the Alliance for Open Media, which is developing an open, royalty-free video format called AV1. AV1 is targeting better performance than H.265 and, unlike H.265, will be licensed under royalty-free terms for all use cases. The top three over-the-top SVOD services (Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu) are now all members of the alliance. In joining the alliance, Hulu hopes "to accelerate development and facilitate friction-free adoption of new media technologies that benefit the streaming media industry and [its] viewers."

Read More @ http://www.fiercecable.com/online-video/...-codec-av1

[ClawsMissingBall]

Tbh, FFmpeg is a much better encoder, companies simply don't want to open source their shit to use it or pay the autistically low patent fee to use it.

I hope AV1 dies in a dumpster fire.