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AOMAnalyzer is an open video compression tool developed by the Alliance of Open Media. The tools are used to compress videos into a smaller size (encode) and decompress while viewing them (decode) There is a lot of cool things that take place when compressing a video and you can learn more about it here. The company behind the project is working on a new version of the software that is called AV1. The software is being developed by Google, Microsoft, Sony and others to improve quality of videos.