Valve is rolling out a new update for the Steam Link app that brings multiple new enhancements for Android TV.
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Microsoft has improved video encoding on Windows 11 24H2 with hardware-accelerated AV1 encoding thanks to WDDM 3.2.
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Intel and Netflix co-developed the SVT-AV1 codec a few years ago, a software-based CPU encoding AV1 solution. The latest update of the codec claims to feature a performance boost of up to 40%.
Streaming software OBS Studio has received its latest update today. The new update brings improved support for AV1 codec on both AMD and Nvidia. It also blocks rogue Windows DLL files.
OBS Studio 29.0 is now available for download. The final release follows three Betas that have been released ever since November 23. It comes with a long list of features, improvements, and fixes.
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AMD could beat down Intel's 14th Gen Meteor Lake severely with its next-gen Ryzen 7040 series Phoenix APUs. This is despite Intel now confirming that Meteor Lake will feature cutting-edge AV1 support.
The popular video recording and streaming app, OBS Studio, has gained support for AV1 encoding on Nvidia RTX 4000 graphics cards. Alongside that, a Windows 11 22H2 issue has also been fixed.
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The recently announced RTX 4000 series cards introduces AV1 encoding on Nvidia GPUs. Following that, the Chromium development team has added a merge which will now allow streaming in AV1.
Microsoft today released a major update for Windows Subsystem for Android all Insider channels. It brings AV1 codec support, IPv6, VPN connectivity, Settings app update, and much more.
Apple maybe working to finally bring AV1 support to several of its product lines according to the latest leak. This is a feature which has been missing on Apple products for a long time.
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AMD may be developing a 2GB desktop card in the form of the Radeon RX 6300 based on the company's Navi 24 chip. If true, the card may potentially be even worse as a product than the 6500 XT itself.
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Intel's Arc GPUs are the first in the market to offer full AV1 support. This means the cards can also encode AV1 content, a feature that is still not available on AMD nor on Nvidia.
The next-generations VVC/H.266 codec has been announced as a follow-up to H.265. Like the previous codecs, H.266 promises a significant reduction in size with no apparent quality loss.
Netflix today announced that it is beginning to stream select AV1 content on its Android app. The royalty-free codec brings a 20% improvement to compression efficiency, reducing streaming data usage.
