AV1 is a new video codec, produced by the Alliance for Open Media. AOM is a consortium of browser vendors, content producers, streaming platforms, teleconferen

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).