dav2d: VideoLAN Launches Fast AV2 Video Decoder

Originally published on Jean-Baptiste Kempf’s Blog — May 31, 2026

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The VideoLAN community announced dav2d, a fast, portable decoder for the new AV2 royalty-free video codec from the Alliance for Open Media. AV2 succeeds AV1 with roughly 25% compression improvements but 5x more decoding complexity, making a fast software decoder essential. The project is the spiritual successor to dav1d (the most widely deployed AV1 software decoder, used in VLC, FFmpeg, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari). The current tree already contains a feature-complete AVM v15 decoder with 8-bit and 10-bit support.

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