Bitmovin’s Developer Report has arrived with its 7th edition. As with most reports of this type, there is a tendency to be siloed. Seldom do we see comparisons to previous years, which is imperative for drawing trend lines up and down. An annual snapshot is a blinkered one, so Faultline has a duty of clarity to expose the patterns that some people don’t want you to see. For certain subsets of streaming workflows, the damage ain’t pretty – notably for adoption of next-generation video codecs. With the exception of AVC and HEVC – the two widely established MPEG codecs – use of every single other video codec covered by the report’s scope has plummeted since last year. That means AV1,…