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Alliance for Open Media welcomes new members

April 6, 2016

The Alliance for Open Media has announced that AMD, ARM and Nvidia have joined the consortium in pursuit of an open and royalty-free AOMedia Video codec. The Alliance is also announcing public availability of its AOMedia Video source code as an open source project, and is welcoming contribution from the broader developer community.

“The open source availability of our AOMedia Video project with active contributions from industry leaders marks the beginning of a new era of openness and interoperability for Internet video,” said Gabe Frost, Executive Director, the Alliance for Open Media. “We’re delighted to welcome AMD, ARM, and NVIDIA to the Alliance for Open Media, reflecting the importance of hardware support to achieve broad industry adoption.”

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