📚 Microsoft Announces AV1 Codec Support in Windows 10
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🔗 Quelle: news.softpedia.com
Microsoft is a co-founder of the Alliance for Open Media, or AOM, an organization that developed the AV1 standard to allows for better compression and improved video image quality. And because Microsoft claims that AV1 has become so advanced lately, being able to reach 50% better compression than H.264 and 20% better than VP9 for the same video content, the company is now ready to bring it to Windows 10 on the next-generation hardware. “This fall, Microsoft’s hardware partners are rolling out hardware-accelerated AV1 video support on new Windows 10 systems with the latest GPUs. With video consuming an ever-increasing portion of the world's internet traffic, better compression technology helps to improve video image quality while also reducing bandwidth consumption,” Microsoft says. Required chips To use hardware-accelerated AV1 video on Windows 10 you’ll need Windows 10 version 1909 or newer, the AV1 Video extension from the Microsoft Store, an u... ...