Accidental Tech Podcast Topics AV1 video codec Topic AV1 video codec 2 mentions in 1 episode Modern video compression standard offering better picture quality with lower bandwidth than previous codecs. Mentions 714: Get the Bigger Pizza Oct 23, 2026 32:11 The new Apple TV has AV1 hardware decoding thanks to A18 SoC chip. 32:59 YouTube and Netflix both desire to and do encode things in AV1 for better picture quality with lower bandwidth.