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Originally Posted by birdie
It's kinda strange we have projects like x264/x265 for patent encumbered H.264/H.265 codecs, yet nothing like that for VP9/AV1.
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rav1e is basically the x264 of AV1 in terms of a community or free software driven project, time will tell if it gets even remotely as much traction as x264 did early on.
Its also as much of a successor to the Theora project, which also had On2 lineage stemming from VP3 being open sourced. For such a limited base codec, they managed to get a lot out of Theora (Ptalabvorm) before VP8 made it redundant for web video.
x265 on the other hand was never truly a successor to x264 in terms of community from what I've seen - it was driven by MultiCoreWare from the get go, and controlled by them rather than community (don't quote me there).
I'd also say rav1e is also kind of a test to see if a production codec can be viable if written in Rust, I think its the first?