--- title: AV2 Video Codec Adoption Talked Up, SVT-AV2 Being Developed description: The Alliance for Open Media says AV2 is seeing significant ecosystem momentum. AV2 is a royalty-free video codec backed by Amazon, Apple, Google, Intel,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/av2-video-codec-adoption-talked-up-svt-av2-being-developed-fmnsqctdz twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: AV2 Video Codec Adoption Talked Up, SVT-AV2 Being Developed | daily.dev og:description: The Alliance for Open Media says AV2 is seeing significant ecosystem momentum. AV2 is a royalty-free video codec backed by Amazon, Apple, Google, Intel,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/av2-video-codec-adoption-talked-up-svt-av2-being-developed-fmnsqctdz og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/FmNSQCTDz.png og:image:alt: AV2 Video Codec Adoption Talked Up, SVT-AV2 Being Developed og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # AV2 Video Codec Adoption Talked Up, SVT-AV2 Being Developed **[Phoronix](https://daily.dev/sources/phoronix)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The Alliance for Open Media says AV2 is seeing significant ecosystem momentum. AV2 is a royalty-free video codec backed by Amazon, Apple, Google, Intel, Netflix, Samsung and others, offering around 30% greater compression efficiency over AV1 plus improved HDR performance. Google is experimenting with AV2 support on YouTube and Chrome, with YouTube AV2 streams expected in early 2027. Meta plans to use AV2 across Facebook and Instagram. Intel is developing SVT-AV2, a CPU-based encoder following its SVT-AV1, SVT-HEVC and SVT-VP9 work. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What compression improvement does the AV2 video codec offer over AV1? AV2 delivers around 30% greater compression efficiency compared to AV1, along with improved HDR performance and other enhancements. AV2 is a royalty-free codec developed by the Alliance for Open Media, with backing from Amazon, Apple, Google, Intel, Netflix, and Samsung among others. _daily.dev keeps engineers planning video pipeline upgrades current on AV2 codec progress._ ### Is Intel building a CPU-based encoder for the AV2 video codec? Yes, Intel is developing SVT-AV2, a new CPU-based AV2 video encoder. It follows Intel's Scalable Video Technology work on the successful SVT-AV1 encoder, as well as earlier SVT-HEVC and SVT-VP9 projects. _Track SVT-AV2's progress on daily.dev if you're evaluating CPU-based encoders for future codec support._ ### When will YouTube start supporting AV2 video streams? YouTube AV2 streams are expected in early 2027. Google has been experimenting with AV2 support both on YouTube and within the Chrome web browser as part of broader industry momentum behind the royalty-free codec. _Follow daily.dev to catch streaming platform codec rollouts before they hit your stack._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [AV2 Codec Looks Like It Will Be Officially Released Next Week](https://daily.dev/posts/av2-codec-looks-like-it-will-be-officially-released-next-week-i5nkdddep) · Phoronix · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [AV2 Specification](https://daily.dev/posts/av2-specification-0xu93rxid) · Lobsters · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [When a video codec wins an Emmy](https://daily.dev/posts/when-a-video-codec-wins-an-emmy-pcv4zoohx) · Mozilla · 32 upvotes · 2 comments - [AV1 — Now Powering 30% of Netflix Streaming](https://daily.dev/posts/av1-now-powering-30-of-netflix-streaming-qexfj3vlm) · Hacker News · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#intel](https://daily.dev/tags/intel) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/av2-video-codec-adoption-talked-up-svt-av2-being-developed-fmnsqctdz) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"AV2 Video Codec Adoption Talked Up, SVT-AV2 Being Developed","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/av2-video-codec-adoption-talked-up-svt-av2-being-developed-fmnsqctdz","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/av2-video-codec-adoption-talked-up-svt-av2-being-developed-fmnsqctdz"},"datePublished":"2026-10-25T10:49:13.674Z","dateModified":"2026-10-25T10:49:48.108Z","description":"The Alliance for Open Media says AV2 is seeing significant ecosystem momentum. 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