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Re:H265: Technical Overview by nimish on Saturday November 05, 2016 @12:35PM (#12880458)
The good new is that Daala, Thor and VP10 got merged into the Alliance for Open Media's AV1 codec

The bad news is that AV1 is still under development and will be for a while yet

Re:H265: Technical Overview by snvzz on Saturday November 05, 2016 @08:29PM (#12882712)
They're matching HEVC in synthetic benchmarks already, and aim to release the spec by March 2017, which is soon enough.