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Hulu Joins Netflix and Amazon In Promoting Royalty-free Video Codec AV1 - Ecks - 07-04-2017
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."
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RE: Hulu Joins Netflix and Amazon In Promoting Royalty-free Video Codec AV1 - ClawsMissingBall - 07-05-2017
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.