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> I am more looking forward to future release. The current version is mostly a bitstream freeze.

It's not even a bitstream freeze. This 'release' was put out by the marking folks, and wasn't even discussed with people on the AOM list (I'm part of AOM via VideoLAN). The bitstream remains under development.

Near as I can tell this is just a PR piece before NAB.

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Oh Christ. I thought they were fast, only last week they said they have a few bugs still left to be fixed. ( And only last month they said they were still listening to hardware makers on suggestions and changes to improve decoding speed )

Thanks for pointing this out.

One reason why I dont like / trust the folks at On2 / VP8, it is nice AOMedia now has folks like you to keep them honest and humble.

Have a nice day.

There is concerted effort on the AOM list to finish and close all bugs or features that require normative bitstream changes, so I would expect it isn't too much longer. The number of remaining issues is small-ish, but not zero.

The involvement of hardware people has been a boon, though tough for software people at times :).

Oh no :( I monitor the AV1 bugs, and repos and was indeed puzzled to see this. So it hasn't actually been released. OMG, this is really bad and could backfire.

Even following the things above, it can be pretty hard to see what's going on.

EDIT: mailing list is not accessibly, had some bits flipped in my wetware

I check bugs and repos often, but I don't know about the mailing list, where is it located?

The AOM engineering list and kavi tracker is restricted to members of organizations in AOM, as far as I am aware.

Oops, I mixed up TLS and AV1. Right, mailing list is off limits to me.

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