[rarisma]

30% over AV1 is crazy, it doesn't feel too long since AV1 released but that was in 2019.

[lxgr]

Yet I still only got hardware support for it on my first devices last year. The downside of "rapid" iteration on video codecs is that content needs to always be stored in multiple formats (or alternatively battery life on the client suffers from software playback, which is the route e.g. Youtube seems to be preferring).

[amiga386]

Hopefully that improves. The guy giving the presentation on AV2 made clear there was "rigorous scrutiny for hardware decoding complexity", and they were advised by Realtek and AMD on this.

So it seems like they checked that all their ideas could be implemented efficiently in hardware as they went along, with advice from real hardware producers.

Hopefully AV2-capable hardware will appear much quicker than AV1-capable hardware did.

[mckirk]

It'd be really cool if we had 'upgradable codec FPGAs' in our machines that you could just use flash to the newest codec... but that'd probably be noticeably more expensive, and also not really in the interest of the manufacturers, who want to have reasons to sell new chips.

[ZeroGravitas]

The main delay the last time was corporations being dicks about IP but the two main culprits have got on board this time.

[bapak]

Unless they create a codec that GPUs are naturally good at, we will inevitably always be a couple of hardware cycles behind.

[illiac786]

It’s insane to a point I am very skeptic.

If true, that would be amazing.