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...