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.
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.