Apple Inc. has yielded to the demands of companies like Google and Netflix, announcing the release of the beta version of Safari 16.4, which includes support for AV1 video decoding. It remains unclear whether this will affect the mobile version of the browser, which has a significantly larger user base. For instance, the mobile version of Safari still does not fully support the VP9 codec.
The AV1 video codec was developed by the Open Media Alliance (AOMedia), which includes companies like Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, Intel, ARM, NVIDIA, IBM, Cisco, Amazon, Netflix, AMD, VideoLAN, Apple, CCN, and Realtek. AV1 is positioned as a publicly available codec that does not require royalty payments and offers significant compression advantages over H.264 and VP9.
Source: opennet.ru
