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They are targeting having the format frozen by March 2017. http://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/Editorial/Featured-Articles/A-Progress-Report-The-Alliance-fo

• shmerl 10y ago
  > So how will contributions from Google’s VP10, Mozilla’s Daala, or Cisco’s Thor be represented in AV1? Gabe Frost explained, “The baseline code in the AV1 project represents where the lion’s share of investment came from before the investment,” essentially indicating that code from VP10, by far the most mature of the three, will dominate. Frost indicated that AV1 will contain some of the best ideas and features of both Daala and Thor. So will Mozilla continuing developing Daala? And what about NETVC? How does it correlate to AV1?
  • wyoh 10y ago
    Daala will continue to be developed but as a research testbed.
    • shmerl 10y ago
      Does it mean they didn't manage to advance Daala to needed quality to make it production ready?
      • wyoh 10y ago
        I don't think so, if we are to believe arewecompressedyet.com, Daala is on par with x265 quality-wise. But they are now sharing their technologies to make Alliance for Open Media's AV1, the next gen patent free codec. They've been talks about using Daala as a still image codec but I don't know if it's gonna happen or not.