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Re:AV1 beats x264 and libvpx-vp9 in practical use case by sjwright on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @01:41AM (#16808355)
This. Even if it takes another year to optimise its encoder and develop hardware acceleration, AV1 will be in the market for two years before MPEG's 2021 forecast.

HEVC's successor will need to be materially superior AND have compelling and final patent licensing terms in order to be remotely viable.

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Re:AV1 beats x264 and libvpx-vp9 in practical use case by snvzz on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @04:47AM (#16809196)
>materially superior

To AV2, that is. I don't expect this to stop at AV1.

As compressing more gets harder and harder, a significant enough improvement to tempt people into using a royalty-encumbered codec is unlikely to happen ever again.

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