Apparently, Chrome 69 beta includes support for the Alliance for Open Media AV1 codec. The feature seems pointless without the ability to encode video with the new codec.
- How can video be encoded with this new codec on Ubuntu 18.04?
- What is the status of playback support in other media players, such as
mpv
?
Best Answer
At the moment a stock standard installation of Bionic Beaver 18.04 will offer little support for either encoding or playback of AOMedia Video 1 (AV1) files. For the sake of testing this assertion I have created a test AV1 file here:
Support for AV1 files in Bionic Beaver at this time (August 5th 2018) was tested with this sample file in the following packages and versions:
Version 70.0.3510.0 (Official Build) dev (64-bit)
. Available as a direct download from Google, see screenshot below!So that is the current state of play, a little dismal but things will improve as AV1 matures...
And the winner is:
Chrome!! For doing it all with the least fuss :)
Runner up:
Vlc!! For getting it all done, just waiting for the packagers to catch up :).
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