There are various signs that apple is expected to support AV1

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Apple Already in it AVFoundation In the frame is AV1 Video adds a new option , It shows that the company is almost ready to tvOS、iOS、iPadOS and macOS Push on AV1 Support .

 

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2015 year 9 month 1 Japan ,AOM（Alliance for Open Media, Open Media Alliance ） Formally established , Its founding members include Amazon 、Apple、 Google 、 Microsoft 、Netflix、 Companies such as Intel and Cisco .AOM Focus on open source development 、 Patent free multimedia coding standard , And in 2018 year 6 The first generation video coding standard was launched in August ——AV1.

however , Although mainstream TV manufacturers have implemented in hardware AV1 Video decoding support , And Google （Youtube） and Netflix Has also started to support AV1, But as a AOM The founding members of ,Apple But it has not yet realized the right AV1 Support for .

With tvOS/iOS API 16.0 The new code added mentions AV1（ especially AVFoundation[1] Global variable in kCMVideoCodecType_AV1）, Things are likely to change .

          See Apple Developer documentation ：https://developer.apple.com/documentation/coremedia/1564239-video_codec_constants/kcmvideocodectype_av1

AVFoundation yes Apple Used in iOS、macOS、watchOS and tvOS Upper processing AV The media （ Mobile media ） Framework . Its changes indicate Apple It is likely to be widely supported in its ecosystem AV1. If so ,AV1 Will become Apple“ arsenal ” An important addition to , After all, many of its competitors have supported AV1. such as , Intel not only supports AV1 decode , And support AV1 code .

Support AV1 The new Apple TV？

Apple The latest chip of M2 There is no support for AV1, However, the company may add to its existing products AV1 Software decoding support .2017 year , When Apple Realized with HEVC Support time , All can run iOS/tvOS 11 or macOS High Sierra Of iOS、tvOS and Mac Equipment has been increased HEVC Support （ Many of them are in software ）.

As report goes [2], Apple It is planned to launch a product based on A14 Chip Apple TV, This product is likely to become AV1 Important candidates .

Notes:

[1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/coremedia/1564239-video_codec_constants/kcmvideocodectype_av1

[2] https://www.flatpanelshd.com/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=1656304554

Sources:

https://www.flatpanelshd.com/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=1658141885

https://www.neowin.net/news/apple-may-finally-be-adding-av1-codec-support-to-multiple-products/

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