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> AV1 is the new codename for Daala + Thor? No, AV1 is the name of the codec the Alliance for Open Media is producing. The Alliance for Open Media is a coaliti
by Veratyr 10y ago
> AV1 is the new codename for Daala + Thor?
No, AV1 is the name of the codec the Alliance for Open Media is producing. The Alliance for Open Media is a coalition formed by Amazon, AMD, ARM, Cisco, Google, Intel, Ittiam, Microsoft, Mozilla, Netflix and NVIDIA [0]. I don't believe Daala is involved.
> Opus beats AAC even for music from what I saw and provides same quality at lower bitrates.
That test notably omits the proprietary Fraunhofer AAC codec, which may outperform the others.
It also produces results differing from the SoundExpert ratings [1], which show Opus and AAC both achieving transparency around 128K, but with AAC doing it by a more comfortable margin.
> Plus AAC is not free.
Freedom isn't relevant to what will be adopted. The parties in control aren't motivated by freedom.
[0]: http://aomedia.org/about-us/ http://aomedia.org/about-us/
[1]: http://soundexpert.org/encoders http://soundexpert.org/encoders
- shmerl 10y ago> Freedom isn't relevant to what will be adopted. The parties in control aren't motivated by freedom. Oh, they are. It's only the matter of scale and who owns the non-free options. If those who have adopt some codecs need to pay tons of money for non-free ones they start caring about freedom quite a bit ;) That's exactly why HEVC shot itself in the foot and will eventually die miserably.