

dav2d
dav2d is the fastest AV2 decoder on all platforms. Targeted to be small, portable and very fast; similar to dav1d, but for AV2.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (BSD-2-Clause)
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Self-Hosted
Features
- Portable
- Cross-Platform
dav2d News & Activities
Recent activities
dav2d information
What is dav2d?
dav2d is an AV2 cross-platform decoder, open-source, and focused on speed and correctness.
It is based on our popular dav1d decoder. It is a quite early project, should not be used in production, notably since the AV2 specification is not final.
This project is edited by VideoLAN as part of its membership by the Alliance for Open Media/AOM.
Goal and Features
The goal of this project is to provide a decoder for most platforms, and achieve the highest speed possible to overcome the temporary lack of AV2 hardware decoder. It will support all features from AV2, including all subsampling and bit-depth parameters. In the future, this project will host simple tools or simple wrappings.

