AV1 codec ecosystem update

Firefox 67 is also the first time the AV1 decoder has switched to dav1d by default. In this presentation it is claimed that Aurora AV1 beats libaom encoder by ~33% and x265 by ~42% on VMAF model. From Visionular website, Auorara claims to improve encoding speed by 32.2% against x265 veryslow which is very surprising and the first time I’m hearing about an AV1 encoder being better in quality and faster than x265.

Source: www.singhkays.com