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Episode: From Theora to AV1: Transforming Video Workflows in Godot 4 (godotfest2025)
Description: Godot’s video playback remains constrained by the outdated Ogg/Theora codec, limiting quality and integration. My talk introduces “Video Toolkit for Godot” (VTG), an open source extension proposing modern AV1 software decoding with cross-platform support. I’ll discuss VTG’s approach to future hardware acceleration, key design choices, and practical challenges. Attendees will see early results, with an open discussion welcomed to gather thoughts and suggestions.
The built-in video playback in Godot 4 is still based on the legacy Ogg/Theora codec, and faces a few major constraints:
1. video quality and compression ratio are limited by an outdated compression algorithm
2. there’s no...