Neowin published a story that Microsoft will support hardware-accelerated AV1 codec on Windows 10 systems.

Microsoft will support hardware-accelerated AV1 codec in latest Windows 10 systems

With the next generation of CPU and GPU hardware being made available to the public shortly, Microsoft has announced that it will begin supporting hardware-accelerated AV1 video codec on Windows 10.

Microsoft will support hardware-accelerated AV1 codec in latest Windows 10 systems