Spurred on by recent events, V-Nova has published a research paper showing that its LCEVC technology can produce performance benefits over native AV1 including power consumption, battery drain and percentage of dropped frames. While the knowledge that LCEVC is capable of enhancing any base codec, including AV1, is no secret by now, V-Nova’s latest revelations have arrived at a poignant time with debates recently resurfacing about whether members of the Alliance for Open Media should turn to the MPEG-5 Part 2 technology. AV1 has become infamous for the first two KPIs mentioned in our opening gambit, with its power-guzzling reputation hastening the creation of a scalable version of AV1 with significant power consumption improvements. We will revisit SVT-AV1 shortly, but…