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AV2 v1.0 Specification Released For Next-Gen Video Coding (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Surely hardware manufacturers could be embedding AV2 starting this year? The spec has just been officially finalized, but it’s been pretty close for years; enough to figure out the hardware design for it.

I’d really like to see Apple, for instance, switch from HEVC to AV2. Less patent encumbrance, better algorithms, and they’re a member of both orgs.

[–] Lojcs@piefed.social 5 points 4 days ago

Even the reference software decoder is at v0.0.1 "very early preview release" so probably not