Responsive Ambient Videos with AV1 and HEVC/H.265 Compression

Ambient videos, or "short looping videos as a background element," are both common and tricky to get right. They can add a lot of visual texture to a design, but are often large, chunky elements that can slow down your performance. But this is 2026! We have some new tools to help with video compression! We're going to utilize some of the techniques Evil Martians demonstrated with AV1 encoding and…