Bringing the best live video experience to Cloudflare Stream with AV1

What this post added

This post introduces support for the AV1 codec in Cloudflare Stream for live videos and their recordings. It details the technical benefits of AV1, including its bandwidth efficiency compared to H.264, and explains how Cloudflare's control over its network infrastructure allows for real-time AV1 encoding using dedicated hardware encoders. The post also addresses the adoption challenges of AV1 due to encoding intensity and highlights how Cloudflare Stream's integrated approach simplifies AV1 adoption for users by enabling on-demand encoding.