AV1 vs H.264 vs H.265: The Next-Gen Video Codec Explained
If you’ve already compared H.264 and H.265, there’s a third codec increasingly showing up in export menus, streaming settings, and phone specs: AV1. It’s the most efficient of the three, and — unlike H.265 — it’s completely royalty-free. The catch is that AV1 is slower to encode and still catching up on universal hardware decode … Read more