Leonardo Chiariglione also said "AOM will certainly give much needed stability to the video codec market but this will come at the cost of reduced if not entirely halted technical progress. "

which is a very real concern. (a bit tired arguing with people defending Google's contraption vs a codec with innovation from dozens of companies)

AV1 is not jut Google's child, but rather Amazon, Cisco, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla and Netflix's collaboration to create a standard that isn't beholden to MPEG-LA: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1

And who has paid the programmers on payroll on aomenc?

> which is a very real concern.

It isn't. Innovation in video coding is driven by the need to achieve the same image quality in fewer bits for easier and cheaper distribution. All video platforms, providers, and users have a stake in achieving that improvement.

Video coding is not finished yet. There's still more to do and there will be an AV2 eventually.

I see. You know better than the MPEG chairman. Good to know, I can retire from that debate.