Alliance for Open Media

AOM Decoder Q4 2023

2023-12-12T00:00:00+00:00

Check out the latest news and updates from AOMedia in the last issue of the Decoder in 2023!

AOMedia Advances the Audio Innovation Era with First-ever Audio Specification Offered Under Its Royalty-free License

2023-11-09T00:00:00+00:00

Immersive Audio Model and Formats (IAMF) Container Specification Enables Ecosystem-Wide Innovation in the Immersive Spatial Audio Domain

WAKEFIELD, Mass. – Nov. 9, 2023 – Advancements in immersive spatial audio are influencing the audio expectations of consumers. However, to enable wide-scale ecosystem deployments, OTT services and hardware device vendors will benefit from license-free spatial audio technologies. Similarly, creators seek formats with immersive audio mixing options that would easily work with the current streaming and playback systems. To solve this challenge, the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) today announced the release of the Immersive Audio Model and Formats (IAMF) container specification, the organization's first-ever audio container specification to be offered under AOMedia’s royalty-free license. IAMF is designed to enable creatives to revolutionize immersive audio experiences across a myriad of applications, from streaming and gaming to augmented reality and virtual reality, as well as traditional broadcasting.

Whether broadcasting live sports, or binging on a favorite show, immersive audio is becoming a bigger part of consumers’ daily lives. AOMedia developed IAMF specifically for the internet audio era, paving the way for companies to make immersive audio part of the devices, products, and services that consumers love. As a result of these efforts, IAMF is a codec-agnostic container specification that can carry information for playback time rendering algorithms and audio mixing.

“IAMF represents a significant step forward in open immersive audio standards. Not only does it cater to diverse use cases, including streaming, gaming, augmented reality, virtual reality, and broadcasting, but it will also provide creators with the tools to craft immersive audio experiences that captivate audiences. As an open media project, IAMF is easily accessible to implementers worldwide, it fosters innovation, empowers developers, and ensures the broad availability of rich, immersive audio experiences that consumers want,” said AOMedia Chair Matt Frost. “I’d like to thank the Storage and Transport Formats (STF) Working Group for their work on this audio specification. IAMF continues to evolve, and it is exciting to see how this working group is already thinking of the features for the next release.”

Highlights of AOMedia’s First-ever Audio Specification IAMF Include:

Spatial Audio for All Devices: IAMF enables the seamless delivery of both channel-based and scene-based, ambisonics spatial audio presentations to a wide range of devices, including headphones, mobile phones, televisions, soundbars, home theater systems and web. This versatility ensures a consistent, high-quality audio experience across various platforms.
Flexible Audio Delivery: IAMF offers a flexible approach to delivering different types of audio elements to end devices. Whether it is 3.1.2 channel audio combined with stereo audio or third-order ambisonics paired with non-diegetic stereo audio, IAMF makes it possible. IAMF provides means to signal rendering algorithms, such as EAR and BEAR, for playback in loudspeaker layouts and headphones.
Creator-Friendly: Creators can dive into IAMF-compliant immersive audio content creation with the existing open source plugins such as the EAR Production Suite, which includes renderers for multi-speaker layouts and binaural monitoring, compliant with IAMF specification guidelines. IAMF’s ability to carry and include multiple audio mix configurations enables creator and user controllable loudness adjustments for different playback preferences. In the near future, the AOMedia open source reference software will add an IAMF encoding tool for compressing various sound mixes to IAMF.

AOMedia IAMF Specification and Reference Software Decoder Availability

The IAMF specification and reference software decoder, complete with test streams, are readily accessible on AOMedia’s GitHub , fostering collaboration and community-driven development. For more information about IAMF and its potential applications, please visit AOMedia’s Getting Started page.

About the Alliance for Open Media

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AOMedia Public Relations
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Jessie Hennion
AOMedia Public Relations
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781.876.6280

AVIF: Meet the Next Level Image File Format

2023-11-08T00:00:00+00:00

In these images of a scarlet macaw, you can see how the AVIF format stands up. If you click to enlarge each image, you can see that the AVIF is clearly better quality than the JPEG, even though they are almost the same file size. While the PNG original looks better, it's massive and inappropriate for web use. When compared against a WEBP image of the same size, you'll notice that the AVIF has more detail in the fine feathers around the face and the top of the wing. While the differences are subtle, they are there.

It’s not often that you find better quality for a lower cost. But the Alliance for Open Media’s AVIF format represents a much-needed improvement on the JPEG format developed in the 1990s. While there are other alternatives, including PNG, GIF, and WebP, they all have serious shortcomings that the AVIF format overcomes.

The quality of AVIF images is noticeably superior to JPEG. Thanks to smaller file sizes AVIF images render more quickly in browsers, speeding up the experience of internet users, especially when they’re on mobile browsers. Smaller file sizes also ease the pain of monthly data caps and finite hardware storage limits on phones.

The AVIF format was first released in 2019. It was designed to improve compression methods and deliver better quality per byte while delivering superior visual appeal. AVIF is also royalty-free and supports high dynamic range (HDR) and other modern imaging techniques (more on that below).

Now that the new AVIF format is seeing widespread adoption and support by major players like Google, Apple, Mozilla, Microsoft, and Meta, it’s a sure bet that you’ve viewed AVIF images without even knowing it.

The Need for Speed

We've all given up on sites that took too long to load. There are also dozens of stats that confirm that load speed can make or break the success of a website. One study of over 100 million page views showed that conversion rates were three times higher for the fastest e-commerce websites¹. In another study, 70% of consumers said that a website’s load time affected their willingness to buy². Even for sites that aren’t e-commerce related, load speed can still affect how much time users spend engaging with content and search engine rankings.

Image sizes can be a big part of the load speed of a site, and they’re certainly the most straightforward problem for owners to fix. If a site owner converts their images to AVIF, file sizes can shrink to less than half that of JPEGs.

As a tangential benefit, smaller image sizes mean less storage space is used, which can mean lower costs for site owners. Reduced storage space could also mean that one day everyone will be able to store more photos on their phones.

AVIF has also seen heavy adoption by streaming services like Netflix.

“We have A/B tested AVIF-SDR image assets on web browsers and have observed improvements in our ‘time-to-render (TTR)’ metric,” said Aditya Mavlankar, senior software engineer for video algorithms at Netflix.

“TTR improvement was seen across a variety of client/network connections — and across browser implementations such as Chrome, Firefox, and Safari — with larger improvements materializing on the particularly slow connections."

The growing success of AVIF is gratifying for Jani Huoponen, group product manager for immersive audio and open media Codecs at Google, and a member of AOMedia's Codec Working Group. “Our goal was the development of royalty-free technology that would empower more web platforms, browsers, and users to stream video and images at higher quality."

How Does AVIF Compare to Other Codecs?

Images that use AVIF stand up extremely well in terms of visual quality, file size, and encoding speed when compared to other formats. Specifically, AVIF offers a maximum color depth of 12 bits in three color space channels and supports transparency. AVIF supports multiple color subsampling formats, including YUV 444 and YUV 420. While YUV 420 is a great fit for most images, YUV 444 subsampling helps avoid color bleeding with certain types of image content, for example. Nevertheless, most modern AVIF encoding tools support the sharp YUV feature (similar to sharp YUV in WebP) and YUV 420 sub-sampling with sharp YUV enabled mitigates most of the color bleeding.

In these images of a bridge, you can see how the AVIF format stands up. If you click to enlarge each image, you can see that the AVIF is clearly better quality than the JPEG, even though they are almost the same file size. While the PNG original looks better, it's massive and inappropriate for web use. When compared against a WEBP image of the same size, you'll notice that the AVIF has less pixelation around the bridge struts.

Because of its age, JPEG is one of the most widely-supported formats. However, when compared to AVIF, JPEG images exhibit compression artifacts and image blocking. Users will see issues like fuzzy edges, ‘pixelation’, mosquito noise, and the ‘ghosts’ of colors appearing in nearby areas of the images. Color banding appears when the gradients in an uncompressed image are given coarse ‘staircase’ boundaries when compressed.

While PNGs have fine visual quality, they don’t reduce file size very much due to the lossless compression and therefore are less ideal for web content because of their large file sizes. WebPs provide great file size savings compared to JPG, but AVIF reduces file sizes even further.

GIF is the format that just won’t die, even though it only allows for 8-bit color (for a total of 256). From its earliest adventures as animations like “Under Construction”, “Dancing Baby”, and “Dancing Banana”, it thrived as the memeverse continued to expand in the past thirty years. With any luck, AVIF will start to bring better visual quality to Internet humor.

To test the compression capabilities of AVIF, members of the AOM encoded a set of animated GIFs to AVIF. Over the test set, animated AVIF files were an average of 78% smaller than the original GIF files:

Campanile: -86.8%
Ellipsis: -86.3%
Greek_elements: -31.4%
Kayak: -95.2
Lilies: -87.6%
Matthaeus: -89.9%
Menthol: -80.7%
Minor_edit: -85.1%
Monyet: -92.5%
Pen: -66.0%
Plasma: -98.1%
Portrait: -37.4%
US_map: -82.0%
Average: -78.4%

* AVIF encoder version: libaom version v3.5.0. Settings: speed 5, CQ 23 ** Test set: 15 sample GIFs from Wikipedia.

Another advantage of AVIFs for content creators is that they can be encoded and decoded very quickly, thanks to the format’s ability to leverage modern multi-core processors with multi-threaded encoding.

What Else Can AVIF Do?

There are other benefits to the AVIF format. Graphics specialists will be thrilled to know that it supports highly complex images of all kinds.

AVIF images can be used for both still and animated images. They also support high dynamic range (HDR) photos, which show the full detail in both the brightest areas and the darkest. Mixed media, custom metadata, and auxiliary images are also options for content creators.

Artists will be especially interested in the fact that they can create very large images (think gigapixels) as AVIFs as well.

Where is AVIF Supported?

Critically, the AVIF format is supported by top mobile and desktop browsers like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple’s Safari and Opera — you can view the full list with versions here.

If a site owner is using a content delivery network (CDN) to minimize latency, they’ll be glad to know that many of the top offerings support AVIF as well, including Cloudinary, Cloudflare, Akamai, Imgix, Adobe AEM Dynamic Media, ImageEngine and Fastly.

There is also a growing list of WordPress plugins and image compression tools that support AVIF as well:

AutoOptimize
ShortPixel Image Optimizer
EWWW Image Optimizer
Converted for Media
Optimole
ImageMagick
FFmpeg

For photographers, Adobe Camera Raw supports AVIF natively. While graphic design tools like those in the Adobe Suite don’t support AVIFs yet, there is a strong push because so many browsers support the format (Windows PhotoShop users can download this plugin to use AVIFs. There are less complex tools that support AVIF as well, like GIMP, an image editor that works on macOS, GNU/Linux, Windows, as well as Microsoft’s Paint.NET. These can be used to make quick images for social media, and it won’t be long until other simpler tools will be using the format to unlock exciting new effects.

AVIF is supported in Windows 10 and Windows 11 by downloading the free AV1 Video Extension from the Microsoft app store. The AV1 Video Extension enables the viewing of AVIF still images in a variety of apps, such as:

File Explorer (thumbnails, file metadata, and preview of AVIF images)
Photos
Paint
Windows Media Player
Office 365 (PowerPoint, Word, etc.)

AVIF decoding is supported out of the box on macOS Ventura and iOS 16. It’s also available for iPadOS 16 in any app that uses the system decoding APIs.

The AVIF Revolution is Growing

From the perspective of most people viewing web content, the growing adoption of AVIF is a silent revolution. After all, most people don’t right-click to check the format of every image they see.

From the perspective of designers, videographers, website owners, and web platform operators, however, AVIF’s unique convergence of advantages translates into a format decision that gets easier to make with every passing day.

Get Started with AVIF

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BLUEDOT Joins the Alliance for Open Media

2023-07-13T00:00:00+00:00

WAKEFIELD, Mass. – July 13, 2023 – The Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) announced today that BLUEDOT.io, a leading startup specializing in semiconductor design and deep learning, has joined the Alliance as a member. To advance open standards for media compression and delivery over the web, BLUEDOT will collaborate with AOMedia members, the leading internet and media technology companies, including Amazon, Apple, Cisco, Google, Huawei, Intel, Meta, Microsoft, Mozilla, Netflix, NVIDIA, Samsung Electronics and Tencent.

With its groundbreaking technologies, BLUEDOT addresses the evolving needs of video content creators and distributors. By harnessing the power of deep learning, BLUEDOT's flagship product, Pulsar, utilizes AOMedia’s AV1 and AI-powered Super Resolution technology to upscale and encode videos, resulting in high resolution and improved video quality. By leveraging both temporal and spatial information, Pulsar offers an unparalleled viewing experience, satisfying the demands of discerning viewers.

"We are glad to join AOMedia and collaborate with industry leaders to drive the future of video processing and compression," said Mickey Jeon, CEO at BLUEDOT. "Our deep learning technology combined with FPGA-accelerated semiconductor IP is revolutionizing the way videos are enhanced, processed and delivered. We believe that our membership in AOMedia will enable us to contribute to the development of cutting-edge media technologies and provide valuable solutions to our customers."

BLUEDOT’s AOMedia AVIF-enabled ultra-fast FPGA-accelerated encoder solution significantly reduces webpage weight by over 50 percent, while preserving high-resolution picture quality. This breakthrough technology enables image-heavy websites to optimize their operations, reducing costs and improving user experience.

"We’re very pleased to welcome BLUEDOT to the Alliance for Open Media. We share a joint commitment to developing and deploying new media technologies such as AV1 to improve the streaming media experience," said AOMedia Chair Matt Frost. "We look forward to collaborating with BLUEDOT to increase openness and interoperability of internet video."

Designed at the outset for hardware optimization, the AV1 specification and its associated image format, AVIF, are available for tool makers and developers to download.

About BLUEDOT

BLUEDOT is a startup at the forefront of revolutionizing video processing and compression through semiconductor design and deep learning. The company’s solutions, powered by FPGA-accelerated semiconductor IP, enable fast and intelligent video processing and compression in the cloud data center environment. By leveraging AV1-enabled AI-powered super resolution technology and ultra-fast AVIF encoding, BLUEDOT provides enhanced video quality, reduced webpage weight and improved user experience. To learn more, visit https://www.blue-dot.io/.

About the Alliance for Open Media

Launched in 2015, the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) was formed to define and develop technologies to address marketplace demand for open standards for media compression and delivery. Board-level, Founding Members include Amazon, Apple, Cisco, Google, Huawei, Intel, Meta, Microsoft, Mozilla, Netflix, NVIDIA, Samsung Electronics and Tencent. AOMedia’s open-source, royalty-free video codec AV1 is a significant milestone in the ability to deliver a next-generation video format that is interoperable, open, optimized for internet delivery and scalable to any modern device at any bandwidth. Visit www.aomedia.org or follow AOMedia on LinkedIn and Twitter at @a4omedia.

Press contacts

AOMedia
Jessie Hennion
AOMedia PR Director
jhennion@virtualinc.com
781.876.6280

BLUEDOT
Gwen Park
BLUEDOT PR Manager
gwen.park@blue-dot.io

AOM Decoder Q2 2023

2023-07-11T00:00:00+00:00

Check out the latest news and updates from AOMedia in the second issue of the Decoder in 2023!

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Zoom Joins the Alliance for Open Media

2023-06-21T00:00:00+00:00

WAKEFIELD, Mass. – June 21, 2023 – The Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) announced today that Zoom Video Communications, Inc., an all-in-one intelligent collaboration platform, has joined the Alliance as a Promoter Member. As a member of AOMedia, Zoom will collaborate with other leading internet and media technology companies, to advance open standards for media compression and delivery over the web.

Zoom puts people at the center, enabling meaningful connections, facilitating modern collaboration, and driving human innovation through solutions like team chat, phone, meetings, omnichannel cloud contact center, smart recordings, whiteboard, and more, in one offering.

Zoom’s experience and expertise in video communications will be valuable to AOMedia’s ongoing efforts to extend the capabilities of its AV1 video codec and introduce new technologies.

"We’re excited to welcome Zoom to AOMedia, reflecting our joint commitment to leverage AV1 to improve streaming media in new and cutting-edge ways," said Matt Frost, AOMedia Chair. "We look forward to working together with Zoom to increase the openness and interoperability of internet video."

AV1 delivers a next-generation video format that is interoperable, open, optimized for internet delivery and scalable to any modern device at any bandwidth. Designed at the outset for hardware optimization, the AV1 specification, reference code, and bindings are available for toolmakers and developers to download to begin designing AV1 into products.

About the Alliance for Open Media

Launched in 2015, the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) was formed to define and develop media technologies to address marketplace demand for an open standard for video compression and delivery over the web. Board-level, Founding Members include Amazon, Apple, Cisco, Google, Huawei, Intel, Meta, Microsoft, Mozilla, Netflix, NVIDIA, Samsung Electronics and Tencent. AOMedia’s open-source, royalty-free video codec AV1 is a significant milestone in the ability to deliver a next-generation video format that is interoperable, open, optimized for internet delivery and scalable to any modern device at any bandwidth. Visit www.aomedia.org or follow AOMedia on Twitter and LinkedIn.

Press contacts

Alexa Stewart
AOMedia Public Relations
Tel: +1 781.876.6242
Email: astewart@virtualinc.com

AOMedia Research Workshop to Highlight Newest Media Codec Innovations at QoMEX 2023

2023-06-08T00:00:00+00:00

Collaboration Between Alliance Members and Global Academic Community to Drive Future Media Standards and Formats on June 19

GHENT, Belgium – June 08, 2023 – The Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) announced today that it will host the AOMedia Research Workshop Europe 2023 in conjunction with QoMEX 2023, in Ghent, Belgium. The Alliance workshop will take place on Monday, June 19, 2023, from 10:00 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. This workshop marks the first time the Alliance’s event will be held in Europe, bringing together an unparalleled gathering of industry leaders and academic pioneers in the field of media codecs. To access the AOMedia Research Workshop Europe 2023 full workshop agenda and presentation abstracts, visit bit.ly/AOMWorkshop.

To register for the AOMedia Research Workshop Europe 2023, visit bit.ly/45u2jBi

Attendees can dive deep into captivating presentations about cutting-edge topics including groundbreaking video compression research, software decoder analysis, film grain synthesis, and much more.

The AOMedia Research Workshop serves as a premier platform for Alliance member companies and esteemed academics to share the latest research findings, exchange innovative ideas, and explore emerging trends in media codecs and processing, as well as industry applications of these technologies. Attendees will gain invaluable insights from renowned experts hailing from Alliance members Amazon, Ateme, Google, Meta, Netflix, Visionular and more.

For more information about the AOMedia Research Workshop Europe 2023, please visit bit.ly/AOMWorkshop.

About the Alliance for Open Media

Media Contacts

Alexa Stewart
AOMedia Public Relations
Tel: +1 781.876.6242
Email: astewart@virtualinc.com

Melissa Bednar
AOMedia Public Relations
Tel: +1 781.876.8962
Email: mbednar@virtualinc.com

Alliance for Open Media’s Volumetric Visual Media Working Group Opens Call for Proposals on Static Polygonal Mesh Coding Technology

2023-06-01T00:00:00+00:00

AOMedia Members Are Encouraged to Submit Entries to Jump-Start the Creation of Tools that Optimize 3D Graphic Performance in Games and Applications

WAKEFIELD, Mass. – June 1, 2023 – The Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) today announced that its Volumetric Visual Media (VVM) Working Group has opened a call for proposals on static polygonal mesh coding technology. Submissions will help the Working Group identify potential technologies needed to create compression tools that aim to optimize the performance and delivery of high-quality 3D graphics, such as those used in gaming, filmmaking, animation, AR, VR, architecture, manufacturing, and cultural heritage applications. Open to AOMedia members, the call for proposal guidelines can be downloaded here.

AOMedia’s VVM Working Group was formed in February 2022 and is led by Co-Chairs Khaled Mammou, Principal Engineer at Apple, and Shan Liu, Distinguished Scientist and General Manager at Tencent.

“AOMedia is excited to invite our members and the broader community to participate in the development of new tools for the compression of volumetric visual media. Volumetric visual media powers existing experiences such as mapping, gaming, and design and will help revolutionize the growing VR/AR space,” said AOMedia Chair Matt Frost. “The planned work project will enhance the quality of applications and user experience, from product and service providers to consumers. We encourage everyone —- members and non-members alike —- to join in contributing their ideas and expertise to this important effort.”

In this growing area of technology, new tools can ensure the best tradeoff in terms of quality and storage when compressing a 3D model, such as a graphical environment, character, or visual asset. For certain applications, this may mean shorter delivery times and reduced network bandwidth.

Call for Proposals Overview and Deadlines

All AOMedia members are invited to submit proposals. The submissions will be evaluated based on objective and subjective metrics described in the document ,which includes information such as the project timeline, content testing details and all other submission requirements.

Evaluation results will be anonymized before being shared within AOMedia’s Volumetric Visual Media Working Group. Proposal submitters must declare their interest in submitting by June 13, 2023, and submit their results by October 31, 2023. Winning proposals will be announced in November 2023, and the selected proposals will be considered as the starting point for the development of a new mesh coding AOMedia standard.

Questions about the process can be directed to wg-vvm-chair@aomedia.org. To join AOMedia as a member, visit https://aomedia.org/membership/.

About the Alliance for Open Media

Media Contact

Alexa Stewart
AOMedia Public Relations
Tel: +1 781.876.6242
Email: astewart@virtualinc.com

Alliance for Open Media Welcomes the European Commission’s Decision to End Its Preliminary Investigation of the AOM Royalty-Free Licensing Policy

2023-05-23T00:00:00+00:00

WAKEFIELD, Mass. – May 23, 2023 – The Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) welcomes the news that the European Commission has today closed its preliminary review of AOMedia’s royalty-free licensing policy without further action.

AOMedia is a leading developer of open, royalty-free media technologies and develops standards spanning video, audio, still images, and immersive technologies. AOMedia and its members are fully committed to maintaining a thriving, competitive and open internet, which enables innovation and the launch of new products and services and continues to reduce prices for consumers.

Royalty-free licensing forms a foundational element for technological standards and the open internet, fostering innovation, choice and competition in the interests of businesses and consumers in the European Union and worldwide.

This is why AOMedia’s members developed and offer the AV1 video standard royalty-free to implementers. AV1 is deployed across a variety of popular platforms and devices. It enables high-quality video while at the same time reducing streaming and storage costs. It competes in a robust market for video codecs, offering consumers choice, and reducing costs and barriers to entry for implementers, including start-ups. This is important as the internet moves increasingly to video rather than text, and as consumers and businesses increasingly look for faster speeds and better definition.

As an emerging global standard for video, AV1 is making video content more accessible and affordable, across all platforms. We look forward to continuing to work with standard-setting bodies and other regulatory stakeholders in Europe, offering additional information to them about the benefits of AOMedia codecs and AOMedia’s approach to licensing.

About the Alliance for Open Media

Contacts

Alexa Stewart
AOMedia Public Relations
Tel: +1 781.876.6242
Email: astewart@virtualinc.com

AOMedia Members Intel, Meta, Netflix and NETINT to Highlight the Latest on AV1 Commercial Readiness at NAB 2023

2023-04-05T00:00:00+00:00

Panel to Discuss How AV1 Commercial Adoption and Innovation Milestones Are Bringing Better Media Experiences to Customers and Their Devices

LAS VEGAS – April 5, 2023 – The Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) today announced that it will lead the panel discussion, AOM Members Detail the Latest on AV1 Commercial Readiness, at the NAB Streaming Summit, held at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The session will take place on Monday, April 17 from 2:45 to 3:45 p.m. in the West Hall Meeting Rooms. For more information and to register for the panel, visit https://bit.ly/AOMNAB2023.

Using AV1, media producers and distributors are delivering higher quality video at the lowest bitrates, enabling consumers to expect the best from live and on-demand streaming media experiences. This panel will focus on how AV1 offers a generational improvement in coding efficiency over alternatives across the entire media ecosystem of hardware, software, devices, browsers and services.

AOM NAB Streaming Summit 2023 Panel

Hear directly from the internet, tech, and media company representatives that make up AOMedia’s member base on their adoption of AV1 in real-world implementations, the benefits of AV1, and the future of where the codec is heading. Panelists include:

Anne Aaron, Director, Encoding Technologies, Netflix (Moderator)
Alex Liu, Co-Founder and COO, NETINT Technologies (Panelist)
David Ronca, Director, Video Processing, Meta (Panelist)
Iole Moccagatta, Principal Engineer, Intel (Panelist)

About the Alliance for Open Media

Launched in 2015, the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) was formed to define and develop media technologies to address marketplace demand for an open standard for video compression and delivery over the web. Board-level, Founding Members include Amazon, Apple, Arm, Cisco, Facebook, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla, Netflix, NVIDIA, Samsung Electronics and Tencent. AOMedia's next-generation royalty-free video codec, AV1, is optimized for internet delivery and scalable to any modern device at any bandwidth. Visit or follow AOMedia on Twitter and LinkedIn.

Alexa Stewart
AOMedia Public Relations
Tel: +1 781.876.6242
Email: astewart@virtualinc.com