Plans to support AV1 video codec?

Aaron Boxer boxerab at gmail.com
Sun Jun 25 12:45:14 UTC 2017


The sad thing about this new codec is that after the inventor of part of
the encoder helped
Google for 3 years to integrate his algorithm with AV1, they are now trying
to patent his invention:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14583691

On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 8:27 AM, Aaron Boxer <boxerab at gmail.com> wrote:

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>
> On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 3:04 AM, Sebastian Dröge <
> sebastian at centricular.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 2017-06-23 at 22:04 -0400, Aaron Boxer wrote:
>> > Bit stream is supposed to be frozen this fall.
>>
>> Someone would need to write a elements around the decoder/encoder
>> library and add support to the relevant muxers/demuxer.
>>
>> I'm not aware of any concrete plans, it's mostly a matter of someone
>> finding the time to do so. Go ahead if you were asking because you
>> wanted to spend some time on that :)
>>
>
> Don't really have the time :) but I would like to get this started.
>
>
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