🔧 AV2 shipped its 1.0 encoder. Here's what to actually run in your pipeline instead.

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AOMedia released the AV2 reference encoder (1.0.0) at the end of May 2026. It's real, it's about 30% more efficient than AV1 on paper, and you cannot ship it yet: the encoder is slow, there's no FFmpeg support, and no hardware decoders in the wild. This post shows what to run today instead: probe your AV1 hardware support, build a clean...