AV1 Media Player for PC
Last updated on June 15th, 2024 by CNX Video Player
Play AV1 Codec videos on Windows 10 PC & tablet
Are you trying to watch a video using the AV1 codec but unable to play on the Windows 10 PC ? Here’s a simple way to play AV1 videos with the best 4K All video format Media Player for PC aided by Intel HW+
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What is AV1 codec?
(AV1) is a much newer open video codec developed by the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia Video1 – AV1). It is backed by a large number of tech companies including Mozilla, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Netflix, or Nvidia. It has been made available for Video Streaming and Playback services to use over H.264 and H.265 or HEVC. AV1 manages to save up to 30% in bandwidth for the same image quality in HEVC.
Being a pretty new coding standard not many apps have integrated its play within the app and requiring the user to install an additional codec extension. But the good news is, CnX Player has already enabled the playback of AV1 videos without the need of any file conversion or any additional codec download. Which in simpler terms means you just need to drop the AV1 video into CnX Player and rest all is taken care of! You can seamlessly enjoy playing videos encoded in AV1 !
CnX Player professional video codecs even supports the playback of 10-bit AV1 videos, which means you can enjoy more color depth, sharpness, clarity &silky-smooth playback. CnX Player professional video codecs use Intel based Hardware decoding which makes it the top media player with highly optimized video renders on Windows 10 PC & tablet.
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