NVIDIA today announced that it is enabling live-streaming of gameplay through NVIDIA Broadcast in the new AV1 video format. This takes advantage of the AV1 format hardware encode acceleration in the latest GeForce GPUs, and lets streamers vastly improve the quality of their video streams at comparable bandwidths to the legacy H.264 format. AV1 is taking over much of the streaming video landscape by storm, thanks to its royalty free nature, and quality that's comparable or superior to H.265 HEVC, making it a favorite for giant video streaming services such as YouTube, Twitch, and Netflix.