VideoLAN Announces dav2d as an Open-Source and Super Fast AV2 Decoder

Posted by hanuca on Jun 8, 2026 7:59 PM EDT
9to5linux.com; By Marcus Nestor
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VLC Media Player maker VideoLAN announced today the dav2d project as an open-source, cross-platform, and free AV2 decoder focused on speed and correctness, based on the popular dav1d decoder.

The idea behind dav2d is to create the fastest AV2 decoder available on all platforms to overcome the temporary lack of AV2 hardware decoding. dav2d will support all the features from the AV2 royalty-free video coding format, including all subsampling and bit-depth parameters.

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