A 2018 Status Update On The Royalty-Free AV1 Video Codec

[shmerl]

Daala was one of the precursors to AV1. Basically Daala, VP10 and a couple of others merged their efforts to develop AV1.

That doesn't answer the question. Daala is significantly different from AV1 overall, to be worth continuing developing it on its own. But Mozilla hit some technical roadblock they didn't manage to solve at that moment. Now looks like active development has stopped.

Daala wasn't fully merged into AV1, only some parts of it. Its core idea of using lapped transforms was not for instance.

[ssokolow]

Youtube and Netflix are using it and it's supported out of the box (if not default) on all Android devices. But yeah, apart from that, no traction at all ;-)

To be fair to Mr. Octus, both Youtube and Android are "within company with the hardware to encode it" (ie. Alphabet nee Google).

[edwaleni]

Interesting primer on how to optimize AV1 using AVX2.

After rewriting, we noticed the following speedups:

• 240p: 1%–5% depending on mode. As this is the lowest resolution, the DSP routines take a small amount of time relative to other things.
• 480p: Similar to the previous case; up to 7% sometimes.
• 720p: 5%–15% depending on mode. Speedup increased as DSP became more important in terms of time.
• 1080p: Very similar to 720p.

[zanny]

AV1 better take the time it needs to get things right, because the stars will never align like this again. It doesn't matter if we wait a generation of devices for harware decoding if the codec is defective. Once hardware decoders start landing that is it, thats the AV1 we are stuck with.

[andreano]

I wonder why they dropped the Daala transforms (daala_tx). Was it simply too late? Maybe they can reconsider for AV2.

[dwagner]

I wonder why they dropped the Daala transforms (daala_tx). Was it simply too late? Maybe they can reconsider for AV2.

Pro's and Con's are listed at https://people.xiph.org/~jm/daala/revisiting/

[Mr. Octus]

Youtube and Netflix are using it and it's supported out of the box (if not default) on all Android devices. But yeah, apart from that, no traction at all ;-)

I understand what you're saying, and while Google and Netflix make-up most of the stream video on the web very few other sites are using vp9. Some are using vp8 but compared to h264 (which was developed in what, the early 2000?) it has not gained traction at all despite a giant like Google behind it.

Competitors of YouTube are using h264 (Vimeo, DailyMotion)
Live stream services are using h264 (Twitch, Picarto)
Independent video providers are using h264 (VRV, Kanopy, Mondo, MUBI, etc..)
Direct Content Providers are using h264 (NBC, ABC, Fox, Turner, A&E, HBO, etc..)
Government websites are using h264 (In the USA at least, which is sad...)
YouTube might server vp9 but I'm fairly certain that 99.9999% of uploaders are using h264 or carelessly uploading badly optimized mov, wav, etc...

I should have been more specific, it hasn't gain traction with the majority of "average users" or smaller non-mega giants like Google & Netflix. So everyone else

[anarki2]

Aw yeah, throw some more wasted time down the pipe. The next codec noone will ever use besides a few FLOSS zealots. Is xiph.org good for... anything? All the codecs that are actually in use (FLAC, VPn, Opus) are outside jobs moved into the Umbrella afterwards lol.

[actinic]

Competitors of YouTube are using h264 (Vimeo, DailyMotion)
Live stream services are using h264 (Twitch, Picarto)

Vimeo will be using VP9: https://vimeo.com/blog/post/luminous...ty-hdr-arrived

Twitch will be using AV1 because of its advantages in low latency live streaming (and they have contributed to its development): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5sJX6VA34o

I should have been more specific, it hasn't gain traction with the majority of "average users"

The installed base on VP9 decoder support is double the installed base on HEVC support. VP9 has done pretty well for itself and AV1 will do better: https://ngcodec.com/news/2017/10/21/...ng-vp9-and-av1

[actinic]

The next codec noone will ever use besides a few FLOSS zealots

The next codec (AV1) will be used by these companies: http://aomedia.org/about-us/

Even the founder and chairman of MPEG, Leonardo Chiariglione, says HEVC has no real future due to its licensing and maybe even MPEG as an organization is finished. He says the future is AV1 and the Alliance for Open Media: http://blog.chiariglione.org/a-crisi...nd-a-solution/