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Re:AV1 and the Video Wars of 2027 by p0nce on Monday August 20, 2018 @06:27AM (#17798841)
Read this if you want the other side of the story: http://blog.chiariglione.org/a-crisis-the-causes-and-a-solut...

> So don’t expect that in the future you will see the progress in video compression technology that we have seen in the past 30 years.

Google has bought a whole "camp" which is badmouthing MPEG for monetary reasons. Nothing has been over-hyped as much as AV1. Who is really evil? In the end it will all be about SSIM in non-geologic time scale.

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Re:AV1 and the Video Wars of 2027 by wolfgke on Monday August 20, 2018 @10:11AM (#17799996)
> Google has bought a whole "camp" which is badmouthing MPEG for monetary reasons. Nothing has been over-hyped as much as AV1. Who is really evil? In the end it will all be about SSIM in non-geologic time scale.

I will always sympathize with the side that does not enforce protection money (i.e. patent fees) upon others via violence (e.g. legal system).

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Re:AV1 and the Video Wars of 2027 by p0nce on Monday August 20, 2018 @01:14PM (#17801738)
That "violence" has allowed to fund video research.
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