iQIYI Technical Product Team
Dec 11, 2020 · Fundamentals
Analysis of the MSU World Video Codec Competition and the Current State of the AV1 Ecosystem
The MSU World Video Codec Competition highlighted iQIYI’s QAV1 encoder achieving faster speeds and superior compression compared to H.265, while the expanding AV1 ecosystem—bolstered by widespread hardware decoding, platform adoption, and recent QAV1 enhancements such as 8K, HDR, and improved rate‑distortion optimization—promises higher quality video at lower bandwidth costs.
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