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dav1d

brew install dav1d v1.5.3 BSD-2-Clause

Fast, portable AV1 video decoder library written in C, optimized for speed and small footprint.

Why you might care

dav1d is the reference AV1 decoder and significantly faster than libav1d or ffmpeg's native AV1 support on most hardware. Use it as a shared library in media players, transcoding pipelines, or via ffmpeg integration. It's actively maintained by VideoLAN and designed for both performance and low resource usage.

Categories

library video-tool decoder

Alternatives

libav1d ffmpeg libaom
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Build dependencies

meson ninja

Links

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