AOM Decoder April 2025

The Alliance for Open Media has been busy these past few months. First, we’ve been growing our AOMedia Adoption Showcase, which now features stories from twelve AV1 adopters, including new additions Meta, Microsoft, Netflix, NETINT, and Synamedia. Read more about the adoption showcase in our recent update release.

Industry Events

Second, our members have been active at some key industry events. In October 2024, AOMedia members traveled to Abu Dhabi for ICIP 2024. During a half-day industry workshop, presenters from AOMedia members Google, Meta, Apple and Tencent shared the latest on the AOMedia next-generation video coding standard and provided status updates from AOMedia working groups and subgroups. The team also shared production use cases from Meta and Google and talked through some challenges and innovations that came from that work. The session was kindly sponsored by Google and Meta. Learn more about the session in our recent blog.

A host of AOMedia members were also present at NAB 2025 this year. Teams from Bitmovin, Ittiam Systems, NETINT, Synamedia, Vimeo and Visionular were all on hand, showcasing their technology and discussing the latest on AV1. Read our pre-show blog here.

New Members

AOMedia has welcomed several new Promoter Members over the past few months, including Ant Group, Bloomberg, Spatial9, THX, Trinity College Dublin, and VLITT. We are thrilled to have this new group of members join, and we thank them for their contributions.

If you’re interested in AOMedia membership, please email membership@aomedia.org for details.

Member News

• AOMedia member HDR Nova announced that AMD will leverage Nova Streams, a set of verification tools designed to help decoder and encoder implementers have high levels of confidence in their design, in preparation for AOMedia’s next-generation video coding standard. Read the full release: https://bit.ly/3E8PP91

• AOMedia member HDR Nova jointly announced with Novatek that Novatek has licensed Nova Streams, a solution that enables them to begin their design, implementation, and validation processes well in advance of the finalization of the AOMedia specification. This early access to Nova Streams allows developers to accelerate their workflows. Read the full release: https://bit.ly/3EeOOMR

• Netflix launched HDR10+ streaming, utilizing AV1 as its backbone codec for encoding. This upgrade enhances the viewing experience for certified HDR10+ devices, which previously only received HDR10 content.

• Allegro DVT‘s D310 semiconductor IP, the company’s AV1 Decoder IP, is built for easy hardware and software integration within ASIC/SOC design flows. It supports all AV1 profiles: main, high and professional profiles up to 4:4:4 and 8/10/12-bit. D310 features a scalable architecture up 8K120 throughout. D310 is silicon proven having been integrated into SoCs designed into various advanced silicon processes down to 3nm. Learn more via the recent announcement.

Blogs

There’s lots of blog content to catch up on from the last few months:

If you missed our AV1 webinar last fall, you can get details and access the recording via our recap blogs. Check out the webinar summaries of session one and session two for some details on the discussions and links to the recordings. Learn more about our partnership with AOUSD in a post outlining that relationship, and get info on the recent releases of SVT-AV1 v2.3, Libaom v3.12.0, and Libavif v1.2.0.

Visit our blog page for a list of all recent posts.

AOMedia and AV1 in the News

• Marc Baillavoine, Synamedia CTO, predicts open source codecs like AV1 to continue being rapidly adopted across the industry in 2025.

• In this blog, Arm highlights Eclipsa Audio technology developed by Google, Samsung, Arm, and AOMedia. This audio experience leverages AOMedia’s Immersive Audio Model and Formats (IAMF) to create a 3-D soundscape.

• Security Informed names AV1 video codec one of the year's most promising new technologies.

• A recent Streaming Media Connect panel discussed the challenges of new codec adoption and deployment, highlighting AV1 codec’s rising popularity.

• Senior Media Software Engineer at Media, David Ronca, explores the challenges and solutions of AV1 integration into the Android ecosystem.

• According to Axis, next-gen AV1 video encoding is poised to revolutionize the surveillance market.

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