AOM Decoder Q4 2024

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It has been an exciting and successful few months for the Alliance for Open Media. On September 9, we launched our AOMedia Adoption Showcase, which features user stories from seven AV1 adopters: Agora Ateme, Bitmovin, Google, VideoLAN, Vimeo and Visionular. This showcase highlights the advantages these companies gained through AV1 adoption and AOMedia membership. Additional member stories are already in the works and will be added in the coming months, providing further insights into the applications and benefits of AV1. Read more about the adoption showcase in our launch release.

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Industry Events

AOMedia had great representation at IBC 2024 in Amsterdam last month. AWS, Ateme, BLUDOT, Ittiam and Visionular were all on hand at the event. Learn more about what they were promoting in our pre-show blog.

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In June, AOMedia traveled to Taichung, Taiwan for the 2024 Picture Coding Symposium (PCS). At the event, Dr. Anne Aaron of Netflix presented a keynote, “Video Compression in the Wild: Journey of a Video Streaming Company,” in which she highlighted how Netflix is using AV1 and updated on progress for next-gen video codecs. Additionally, AOMedia member companies Meta and Netflix sponsored a social event that brought together approximately 80 attendees for networking and conversations on the future of AV1, among other topics. Participants from AOMedia member companies Google, Apple, and Amazon were also at PCS and helped with the social event.

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On Demand Webinar: Is Real-Time AV1 Ready for Prime Time?

AOMedia recently hosted a webinar that brought together industry leaders in RTC for a discussion on business needs and challenges, the impact of AV1, and how the industry can create a viable ecosystem. The webinar featured a series of sessions in which experts from Meta, Agora and NETINT shared industry insights, and a panel discussion in which leaders from Google, Microsoft, Intel and Agora discussed the progress of AV1 adoption. Introductory comments and panel moderation were provided by AOMedia Executive Director, Pierre-Anthony Lemieux.

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Hear from Agora’s Patrick Ferriter, Meta’s Eric Sun and NETINT’s Alex Liu in the industry insights portion of the webinar, on-demand here.

View the panel featuring Agora’s Patrick Ferriter, Google’s Michael Horowitz, Intel’s Tahani Trigui and Microsoft’s Sasikanth Bendapudi on-demand here.

New Members

AOMedia has welcomed several new Promoter Members in recent months, including HDR Nova, a leader specializing in video, machine learning and compilers, Northeastern University’s Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things (WIoT), and the Université de Poitiers and its XLIM Institute. Additionally, we were thrilled to welcome back returning members VideoLAN and Synamedia. Our members are what drive our success, and we’re privileged to work with leading brands from around the world.

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

Blogs

Over the past few months, AOMedia shared updates on our technical advancements, including the release of libaom v3.9.0 and libaom v3.10.0 from the Codec Working Group and libavif v1.1.1 from the Storage and Transport Formats Working Group. We also shared an update on member activity at IBC 2024 and an in-depth Q&A with our new Executive Director, Dr. Pierre-Anthony Lemieux, where you can learn more about his role and his vision for the future in the media and entertainment space. Finally, we posted blogs highlighting member activity at Demuxed 2024 and ICIP 2024.

Keep an eye on our news page for all the latest news and blogs.

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