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So, in case people wonder what is happening, wrt to the timeline of the AV1 codec, here is some info. This is final version of the bitstream and the specificat

by jbk 8y ago

So, in case people wonder what is happening, wrt to the timeline of the AV1 codec, here is some info. This is final version of the bitstream and the specification of the codec. It will not change anymore (until AV1.1 or AV2). There are not much features changes since the "release" that was announced before NAB (early April), but now everything should be clean and checked (checking that the spec actually matches the reference decoder, decoder model, profiles, ...), and a few bugfixes went in already. Now, in a couple of weeks, you should have MP4 and MKV mappings finalized (yes, that means the files you've seen so far are invalid). And then it will be available to everyone (if you can encode it, of course).

becauseiam 8y ago
> if you can encode it, of course And here lies a really big issue I have with modern codec standardisation and development - it will be unfortunately many years to come until we see sufficient optimisations to make at a minimum realtime encode and decode of AV1 feasible. Ten years ago when Moore's law was actually a thing this can-kicking may have been acceptable but now I sincerely believe codec development needs to be more iterative, and to consider hardware optimisations (in particular, having even a HDL variant as part of reference codec) from the initial outset. VVC I suspect will repeat history in many ways, by virtue of how these codec standards bodies operate.