AV1 is an increasingly important video format and it needs a memory safe, high performance decoder. We worked with the team at Immunant to develop rav1d. Performance is critical in this context, so we've asked Stephen Crane, CTO of Immunant, to explain their efforts in achieving performance parity. If you'd like to dig deeper, check out our recent blog post about how we ported the C AV1 decoder to Rust. Josh Aas, Head of ISRG's Prossimo project rav1d is a port of the high performance dav1d AV...| Prossimo
In March of 2023 we announced that we were starting work on a safer high performance AV1 decoder called rav1d, written in Rust. We partnered with Immunant to do the engineering work. By September of 2024 rav1d was basically complete and we learned a lot during the process. Today rav1d works well—it passes all the same tests as the dav1d decoder it is based on, which is written in C. It’s possible to build and run Chromium with it.| Prossimo