Perhaps looking to get around licensing issues with H.265/HEVC, Apple has silently become a founding member of the Alliance for Open Media, a group working on a new video compression format known as AV1.
Source: macinsider

Apple joins Alliance for Open Media, signaling support for AV1 video
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