Cisco Leap Frogs H.264 Video Collaboration with Real-Time AV1 Codec

Re:Cisco Leap Frogs H.264 Video Collaboration with Real-Time... by p0nce on Thursday June 27, 2019 @02:32PM (#20297210)

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)

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Re:Cisco Leap Frogs H.264 Video Collaboration with Real-Time... by metildaa on Thursday June 27, 2019 @02:46PM (#20297317)

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

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Re:Cisco Leap Frogs H.264 Video Collaboration with Real-Time... by p0nce on Saturday June 29, 2019 @09:26AM (#20312430)

And who has paid the programmers on payroll on aomenc?

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Re:Cisco Leap Frogs H.264 Video Collaboration with Real-Time... by clouddrover on Thursday June 27, 2019 @08:02PM (#20300191)

> 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.

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Re:Cisco Leap Frogs H.264 Video Collaboration with Real-Time... by p0nce on Saturday June 29, 2019 @09:26AM (#20312428)

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

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