About a year or so ago, we talked about how we added support for new codecs to Janus, namely AV1 and H.265, and why that was an interesting foundation for more exciting things to come. AV1 in particular was a very interesting addition, since it’s a joint effort of several companies to write a powerful royalty free video codec, explicitly conceived to support Scalable Video Coding (SVC) out of the box, which is obviously a very appealing feature, especially in the context of WebRTC (e.g., for conferencing and broadcasting purposes). At the time, while Chrome had started, thanks to the…