dav1d

dav1d is a new AV1 cross-platform decoder, open-source, and focused on speed, size and correctness.

About

dav1d is a new open-source AV1 decoder developed by the VideoLAN and FFmpeg communities and sponsored by the Alliance for Open Media.

Goals

• as fast as possible,
• small,
• very cross-platform.
• correctly threaded

Technical details

• Uses Meson and Ninja to build
• Written in C99
• Runs on Windows, Linux, macOS and Android
• Licensed under BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License
• As of October 2019, Dav1d is the fastest AV1 software decoder

Contributing

You can contribute to dav1d by writing C or ASM, additionally app integration and testing is wanted.

To contribute, check out the contribution document.

Most of the development discussion happens on IRC, in the #dav1d channel on Libera Chat.

The Code

The code can be found on the VideoLAN Gitlab:

git clone https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav1d.git

Source

The source code tarball can be found on our ftp: dav1d tarballs.