Vimeo Announces Support for Free AV1 Codec

After YouTube has been using the new free video codec AV1 for some time, Vimeo has now announced its support. AV1 allows streaming HD/UltraHD video at a reduced bit rate, which saves Vimeo a lot of money - especially since, unlike H.264 and H.265, no license fees have to be paid for its use.

The AV1 codec of the Alliance for Open Media, which includes heavyweights such as (Alliance for Open Media, which includes Google, Apple, Facebook, Netflix, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla, IBM, Amazon), is up to 40% more effective than the HEVC/H.265 codec and thus far better than H.264. The current versions of the Firefox, Chrome and Opera browsers supported videos encoded by AV1 are native.