Bitmovin is up to its usual antics of teasing patent-pending technologies related to AV1 encoding. The US vendor of video compression and player services has filed two patents for technologies related to AV1 VoD compression. Unfortunately, Bitmovin cannot currently convey the details of these patent applications, but the big claim is that these developments significantly improve turnaround times for per-title and 3-pass encoding. On reading Bitmovin’s latest blogpost, Faultline was struck by a sense of déjà vu. Almost two years ago, in April 2022, Bitmovin spoke about applying for a patent to protect a novel approach to AV1 3-pass encoding technology. It is unclear from the latest post whether Bitmovin is teasing an entirely new patent-pending technology or if the…