Tencent's Self‑Developed TXAV1 Video Codec: Architecture, Performance, and Optimization Techniques
Tencent's TXAV1 encoder, a self‑developed AV1 video codec, combines advanced compression‑rate improvements, engineering acceleration, and extensive cloud deployment, achieving up to 78‑334% speedup with minimal quality loss, and includes novel pre‑analysis models, adaptive quantization, and multi‑threading strategies for both video and image applications.