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… It will likely be a while before seeing new GPUs with built-in AV2 support while today AOMedia has their AOMedia Video Model AVM reference software. VideoLAN developers have been working on DAV2D as a CPU-based AV2 decoder . The AV2 1.0 specification is available at av2.aomedia.org . …
… Back in 2023, AV2, the successor to AV1, started popping its head up as it gained experimental support . Fast forward three years, and the first final specification version, 1.0.0, of AV2 landed last week. …
… So we’d have to wait for projects like Dav1d or will it be Dav2d? to get an optimized AV2 decoder and encoder with SIMD and assembler. …
… AOMedia has quietly published the first 1.0.0 release of its AV2 encoder, spotted by users on the AV1 subreddit and picked up by Videocardz . There was no official announcement, and AOMedia's public AV2 specification page still lists the standard as a draft. …
… To that end, Kempf and the team are working on the dav2d software-based AV2 decoder. This succeeds the dav1d AV1 decoder currently used in VLC, Windows, Android, and numerous other platforms. It might be a while before all major platforms and hardware makers adopt AV2, though. …
