Reference implementation strengthens the open immersive audio ecosystem with production-ready rendering for loudspeakers and headphones WAKEFIELD, Mass. July 30, 2026 — The Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) today announced the publication o…
The Alliance for Open Media has reached a significant milestone in open video coding with the official release of the AV2 specification. While the announcement underscores major performance leaps and new capabilities, it also signals a crit…
July 27, 2026 | 3 minute read The Alliance for Open Media has reached a significant milestone in open video coding with the official release of the AV2 specification. While the announcement underscores major performance leaps and new capabi…
The AOMedia Video Codec Working Group is pleased to announce that libaom v3.14, aka “Pinkie Pie,” is now available. This release makes available all the improvements the libaom team made during the 8 months since the last libaom feature rel…
July 23, 2026 | 5 minute read The AOMedia Video Codec Working Group is pleased to announce that libaom v3.14, aka “Pinkie Pie,” is now available. This release makes available all the improvements the libaom team made during the 8 months sin…
June 6, 2026 | 2 minute read Wakefield, Mass. – June 9, 2026 - The Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) today announced the release of the AV2 specification. AOMedia is a standards organization focused on bringing next-generation media experie…
April 29, 2026 | 2 minute read The AOMedia Storage and Transport Formats Working Group (STFWG) is pleased to share that libavif v1.4.0 is now available. This marks the first major release of the technology since April 2025 and includes a ho…
April 29, 2026 | 3 minute read dav1d is an open source AV1 cross-platform decoder — software library that turns compressed AV1 video back into viewable images. It was built to be fast, efficient, and widely usable across all devices. It sol…
April 27, 2026 | 3 minute read Reference implementation now publicly available for developers to use Wakefield, Mass. — April 28, 2026 — The Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) today announced that the reference software for its upcoming Poly…
April 8, 2026 | 2 minute read WAKEFIELD, Mass. – April 9, 2026 – The Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) today announced that Immersive Machines, a developer of professional software tools for immersive audio mastering and delivery, has joine…
March 16, 2026 | 2 minute read Now that the AV2 specification is publicly available after five years of hard work, AOMedia members are already demonstrating it in real-world playback environments. At CES 2026, AOMedia members Google, and Vi…
March 11, 2026 | 1 minute read AOMedia’s Software and Implementation Working Group (SIWG) is excited to share that SVT-AV1 4.0, the latest release of its award-winning flagship project, is now available. SVT-AV1 4.0, released earlier this y…