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Awesome, initial AV1 support!

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lol I read that as "AVI support" and thought you were being sarcastic :)

That’s why AV1 is a terrible name, they should come up with something else while it’s still possible changing it.

If you write it lowercase the 1 stands out over the i. av1

Or it looks like avl, depending on the font...

You won't see .av1 file extensions, it will still be in a .mkv or .webm container.

This is what has me excited, too (although unfortunately we're still looking at a likely 6-8 years before relevant targets will support it too...).

Depends on what you classify as relevant targets. All big hardware companies have been onboard since the begging and probably already have prototypes of fixed-function decoders. Chances are we'll have consumer hardware with such decoders sometime next year.

If you actually go on the AV1 spec issue tracker, there are issues (both closed and open) from people at Nvidia, ARM's hardware team, Google and Netflix.

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