Thanks for the kind words Matt!

Kevin,

Not sure how you got to the conclusion that I think AV1 won’t happen or will by royalty bearing. I believe we share the same views and mostly due to the same reasons.

There’s a critical mass of huge corporations and video experts behind AV1, which makes it the natural path towards the future of video coding at this stage.

I must say, FUD is the best way of fluttery in technology.

Dan, AOM today includes Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Cisco, Mozilla, Intel, ARM, nVIDIA and many others. You sure they were misled and don’t understand the meaning?

While at it, can you explain what this term “royalty free” really means, and how it is different for AV1 versus VP8?

“Royalty Free” is a very misleading definition – there is nothing royalty free today. AV1 supporters are using this definition to convince companies to join AOM, and it is quite bad that many companies do not understand what this term “royalty free” really means.

The defensive patent pool is rather large… I don’t think it leaves much breathing room for patent trolls to attack without exposing themselves to counter suits from the AV1 supporters.

Vijay,

Time will tell.

Thabk you for very comprehensive information regarding AV1. But I don’t agree with your argument why AV1 will better than HEVC body where people wants there proposal get adopted in standard so that they get royalty. I think other way around because people will do more research and hard work so that their proposal get adopted and they get benefited in terms of royalties. Even small companies will try to have their patents inside the standard. Here in AV1 I think few companies will put their dedicated workforce who have their inherent interest but rest of companies may not have motivation except using it in future.

Your study appears to refer to a version of AV1 from around nine months ago, before a lot of the experiments had been locked down. I’m not sure how much this matters, but the visual comparisons I’ve seen suggest there have been improvements since then.

As the owner of a site with user-submitted content sites where video is a necessary part of our offering, but not “core”, I don’t want to be worrying about compatibility or transcoding, let alone licensing requirements. We’re looking to transition from AVC and SWF, not HEVC; image quality or size savings are great, but what really matters is whether our audience can play what’s uploaded.

Being able to just say “if you don’t see this, upgrade your browser” would be a huge win. Then we can perhaps stop thinking about it for another decade. With AV1’s partners, I see that being feasible by 2019; for HEVC, we’ve already been waiting for years. It’s kinda like GIF vs. APNG – might be “better”, but what matters is “working”.