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Bringing AV1 Streaming to Netflix Members’ TVs

https://netflixtechblog.medium.com/?source=post_page-----b7fc88e42320-----------------------------------by https://www.linkedin.com/in/liwei-guo-a5aa6311/, https://www.linkedin.com/in/gvashwin/, https://www.linkedin.com/in/raymonsang/, https://www.linkedin.com/in/phamchristopher/, https://www.linkedin.com/in/agataopalach/, https://www.linkedin.com/in/niweibo/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1 is the first high-efficiency video codec format with a royalty-free license from https://aomedia.org/(AOMedia), made possible by wide-ranging industry commitment of expertise and resources. Netflix is proud to be a founding member of AOMedia and a key contributor to the development of AV1.

Since then, we have been working hard to bring AV1 streaming to Netflix members.

We were very pleased to see that AV1 streaming improved members’ viewing experience, particularly under challenging network conditions.

We have a stream analyzer embedded in our encoding pipeline which ensures that all deployed Netflix AV1 streams are spec-compliant.