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Could any seniors give more information on what do they mean by this firefox update: A better video streaming experience for Windows users: Firefox now supports the next-generation, royalty-free video compression technology called AV1?


AV1 is a new video codec, produced by the Alliance for Open Media.

AOM is a consortium of browser vendors, content producers, streaming platforms, teleconference providers, hardware companies, and others to produce a state of the art, efficient codec that's also free of the outright extortion that comes with patents on codecs from MPEG (like H.264 and H.265).


The blog post linked from the release notes has some more information about AV1:

https://medium.com/mozilla-tech/mozilla-celebrates-release-o...


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