Demonstrating Real Time AV2 Decoding on Consumer Laptops

this is a reference decoder, not an optimized one. AV1's reference decoder couldn't do real-time on consumer hardware either, dav1d is what made it practical, and that took years after the spec. The real question is when something like dav1d-for-AV2 shows up, and whether hardware decode blocks land in the next silicon generation, until then this is a proof of spec correctness, not a deployment signal

Hm. Not a lot of technical details about the bitrate improvement of the streams of the CPU required to decode them. I’m also wondering if all the encoding and decoding was done by software reference implementations (just VLC?) or whether anything had any form of hardware assist? It reads as “We did it” without much other information as to how well it went or what AV2’s benefits are over both AV1 and other codecs and whether those benefits were realized in the demonstration or require downstream work to achieve.

I think it’s really cool how good the newest video codecs are, but here I am finally able to (only very recently) safely use HEVC and assume that pretty much every end user device has hardware support. It’ll be a while before AV1 reaches that level of adoption and even longer before AV2 does. See you in a few years.

Huh, I didn't know AV2 was out. What are the new features besides (I assume) incremental compression efficiency?

>Now that the AV2 specification is publicly available

Draft of AV2 spec. Not final. I think they just tagged the AVM 14 release from their research branch. But personally it feels it is no where near final / finish status.