YouTube starts testing AV1 codec

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Big upgrade for YouTube live streaming quality

YouTube is beta testing live streaming support for the open-source AV1 video codec, which promises significantly better image quality and more efficient bitrates than current popular codecs.

YouTuber Adam Taylor, who goes by EposVox, recently reported on the development, stating that the codec would bring an end to pixelated live streams.
 
Haven't they been doing this for almost 1-2 years now?
 
xtm said:
Yes YT using AV1 codec almost 3 years
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Yeah I remember some conversation, I think last year, and actually found some videos online with it.
 
rvZA said:
No, it wasn't. I found an older video which supported the Codec. It was not a live stream.
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Yes, I mean this now what the article is on about, they've enabled it now that you can stream AV1 to YouTube.

Watching AV1 from YouTube has been a thing for a while, this is the first time you can now stream AV1 to YouTube.
 
rvZA said:
Haven't they been doing this for almost 1-2 years now?
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If the title didn’t it away - you could have read

YouTube has supported uploaded videos that were recorded and encoded in AV1 for some time but has just started beta-testing real-time video encoding for the codec
 
wingnut771 said:
Is a PC not good enough?
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Yea I’m sure.

I meant if you were planning on using a steamer like Apple TV or Nvidea Shield, then they need to support.

I think PCs started doing hardware decoding of AV1 recently too - but software works
 
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