Comment 1KWZG Re: What about the upcoming 'AV1' codec?

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What about the upcoming 'AV1' codec? (Score: 1)

by wootery@pipedot.org on 2016-07-10 17:53 (#1KWRZ)

Isn't this going to be deprecated as soon as the planned AV1 codec is released?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_for_Open_Media

Re: What about the upcoming 'AV1' codec? (Score: 1)

by wootery@pipedot.org on 2016-07-10 17:55 (#1KWS0)

Oops, didn't read the last paragraph of the summary, ignore me :P

Re: What about the upcoming 'AV1' codec? (Score: 1)

by evilviper@pipedot.org on 2016-07-10 19:34 (#1KWZG)

It wasn't easy to squeeze so much info down into a short summary, without either making it overly technical and incomprehensible to a general audience, or losing so much that the significance isn't obvious. So quite a bit was glossed over or only hinted at.

It should be said that the WebM project also had several large supporters, yet VP8/VP9 decoding only made it into a tiny amount of hardware, products and services. Google was also slow about making YouTube videos available as VP8/VP9. But they did make progressively more headway in software and standards, so it's a hopeful sign that so even more major organizations are interested this time around. Perhaps this dual standardization process, making it no longer just a Google's own codec, will lead to the wide adoption the WebM project was working and hoping for.

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