Jitsi & AV1

March 2025

Jitsi is an open source media server. They’ve recently added support to AV1, and this why and how they took that route

Things discussed:

• Why investing in AV1 now
• The development challenges of adding support for AV1
• The need to go multi-codec (because it isn’t supported everywhere)
• There is such a thing as over-optimizing and over-engineering