dav1d ☆

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Description:
AV1 decoder targeted to be small and fast

Type: Formula | Latest Version: 1.5.2@0 | Tracked Since: Dec 17, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Multimedia

Tags: multimedia video decoder av1 codec

Install: brew install dav1d

About:
dav1d is an AV1 video decoder designed from the ground up to be small, fast, and efficient. It leverages modern CPU instruction sets to deliver high-performance decoding with minimal resource usage. This makes it an ideal choice for embedded systems, mobile devices, and high-performance applications.

Key Features:

High-performance AV1 decoding
Extremely low latency and memory footprint
Written in C with SIMD optimizations (SSE, AVX2, NEON)
Designed for embedded and low-power devices

Use Cases:

Integrating a high-performance AV1 decoder into a media player or streaming application
Decoding video on resource-constrained devices like smartphones or IoT hardware
Benchmarking and testing AV1 decoding performance

Alternatives:

libaom – The reference AV1 codec from Alliance for Open Media; more feature-rich but generally slower and larger than dav1d.
SVT-AV1 – An AV1 encoder/decoder from Intel and Netflix; focuses on scalability and quality, often used for cloud encoding.

License: BSD-2-Clause

Bottles available for: arm64_tahoe, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, sonoma, arm64_linux, x86_64_linux

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