AV1 is just about getting support and we're moving on already?
this post was submitted on 31 May 2026
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Not exactly moving on, just putting another version on the horizon. It'll take some time, and if it somehow doesn't then that's not really a problem.
I upgraded to an RTX Quadro 4000 on my media server (from a 750ti) and it still doesn't support AV1 lmao.
Even last time I was on PC partpicker, the top beefy 10k USD media chonker machine was targeting a specific CPU for cheap AVX512 support because apparently it was required for heavy AV1 work, which I assume meant the GPUs couldn't keep up.
I still haven't converted my stuff to AV1. Lazyness has suddenly become a wise decision.
time to start the 12 year countdown to ever seeing it in a single consumer product
Yeah until it starts hitting widespread hardware decode support (streaming devices and phones) it’s pretty much just a curiosity to all involved as the only things traditionally powerful enough to software decode these codecs at 4k without overheating are computers and I don’t see that changing.
If h266 gets hw decode support on a bunch of common chips first it’ll be a real blow licensing freedom or not.
I wouldn't bet on h266 after the clusterfuck that happened with h264/265 license fees. All manufacturers and developers will re-evaluate their codec use if there's a chance their license fees could 10x overnight just because someone felt like it.
It's a different world, there isn't much driving VVC like there was for AVC and HEVC. There isn't a new physical media format, and even the latest OTA TV specification is stuck on HEVC.
It's going to be up to streaming platforms what wins the next codec race, and a lot of them are betting on AV1 and AV2 for obvious reasons. I don't see VVC really getting widespread adoption.
Codec adoption takes time, but the clock never starts running if you don't get to this particular milestone of releasing the codec spec.
Yeah, my very first thought was “oh great, another new codec for my server hardware and devices to not support.”
if we're going to have more of them they really need to get faster at supporting these things
Do we know for sure this time that there's no way it could infringe on some parent troll's feelings?
Nope.
I don’t think there’s any way to know for sure without some left-field software technique.
My first thought would be something akin to the VAEs already used to encode/decode chunks of video. I dunno how practical it could be adapted as a general video codec, but it has a high compression ratio and a healthy distance from the media patent minefield.
Sweet. Once handbrake and other programs like kdenlive support export in it, I'll start encoding new stuff in it, at least for testing it out. It'll be slow but that's fine. A couple years for hardware decoders in desktop/laptop graphics cards. More for mobile. A couple more for hardware encoders. Then there's the AI hardware shortage that'll make adoption even slower. VVC is already practically dead. It'll be slow for adoption but AV2 is going to be running almost unopposed with how little has happened with VVC in 6 years
How much better is it? I am thinking in terms of compression.
I'm seeing reports of a 20-30% improvement in bitrate usage. But the encoders are also still early at this point
Is this a homeplug announcement from 2015?