Another Bitmovin Developer Report, another conclusion about the optimism of AV1 adoption not having the real-world implementations to match. Bitmovin’s latest results show that a tepid 13% of video developers are currently working with AV1 in production, while 32% are planning to implement the AOM codec in the next 12 months—the highest “planning to implement” score of all video codecs in Q4 2024. This marks an increase for AV1 implementation from just 8% of respondents in last year’s version of the report, though this is still down from 16% of respondents using AV1 when asked the same question back in Q4 2022, which seems like a lifetime ago. This is a familiar story from previous reports from the provider of…