# Install dav1d with Homebrew

AV1 decoder targeted to be small and fast. Version 1.5.4 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-14.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:dav1d
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install dav1d
```

  Evidence: provider-native install command

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:dav1d
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.5.4
- **Source summary:** AV1 decoder targeted to be small and fast
- **Homepage:** <https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav1d>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-14T15:45:28Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T00:40:33+00:00

## Executables

- dav1d (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 1.5.4
## Project history and usage

dav1d is VideoLAN's small, fast, cross-platform AV1 decoder, written in C and assembly and designed for broad embedding.

### Project history

The dav1d README describes a decoder focused on speed and correctness, created to overcome the early lack of AV1 hardware decoding. It identifies the VideoLAN GitLab repository as canonical and notes partial funding by the Alliance for Open Media.

### Adoption history

The project became package-manager-relevant because AV1 needed a fast software decoder on desktops, mobile systems, and other platforms before hardware support was universal. Its roadmap highlights portability, SIMD work, and architecture-specific optimization.

### How it is used

Package users install the command-line tool and library when they need AV1 decoding support, tests, benchmarks, or downstream multimedia software linked against a permissively licensed decoder.

### Why package nerds care

dav1d is significant because it made AV1 decoding practical as a small system package: fast enough for real playback, permissively licensed, and maintained by a media-toolchain community.

### Timeline

- 2018: dav1d development begins in the early AV1 software-decoder era.
- 2023: 1.x releases continue with new SIMD and API work.
- 2025: 1.5.x releases focus on maintenance and architecture optimizations.

### Related projects

- Related projects include AV1, Alliance for Open Media, VideoLAN, VLC, FFmpeg, libaom, and platform SIMD toolchains.

### Sources

- <https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav1d/-/blob/master/README.md>
- <https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav1d/-/blob/master/NEWS>
- <https://videolan.videolan.me/dav1d>


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/dav1d.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/dav1d.yml)


## Sources

- Nucleus package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation