Facebook video adds AV1 support - Facebook Engineering
The recent release of AV1, a new open, royalty-free video format, promises to be an important step forward in compression efficiency. Following our publication of detailed real-world AV1 benchmarking tests, Facebook is now adding trial support for the AV1 format to Facebook video. This allows engineers and the general public to view sample AV1 content [...]Read More...
24 Apr 2018 ... So in order to add AV1 support to Facebook video now, we serve it over MPEG- DASH on Chrome Canary, the experimental version of the ...