New Codec Data: 40% of Respondents Plan to Deploy AV1 in 2026, H.264/AVC Has 84% Adoption

New data from NETINT’s state of video encoding survey shows H.264/AVC sits at 84% production deployment, making the standard effectively universal and plateaued. HEVC is at 65% in production with another 20% planning deployment, putting it on a path toward H.264-level ubiquity. But the breakout number belongs to AV1. At 17% current production deployment, AV1 […]