Adopting AV1 for Real-Time Communication (RTC) at Scale

Meta describes its multi-year effort to adopt the AV1 video codec for real-time communication, covering codec selection, device eligibility, rate control, error resilience, and the challenges of power consumption and latency on mobile devices. The post highlights bitrate reductions of at least 20% compared to H.264/AVC and the use of an internal low-complexity encoder to address power usage increases.

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Adopting AV1 for real-time communication at Meta has been a multi-year effort spanning codec selection, device eligibility, rate control, and error resilience.
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Announced: 22 Jun 2026 16:00 UTC
Detected: 03 Aug 2026 21:12 UTC (+42d after)

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