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Originally Posted by mzso
So AV1 is a tweaked(vp9), tweaked (vp10), tweaked(av1) VP8. Is it worth the fuss? They could have just renamed and released VP9, or whichever state was VP10 at that point as AV1.
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No, I don't know where you've read that. On the poster it clearly says that AV1 is VP9 as base + parts from Daala, Thor (and VP10) and new contributions (work that has been done exclusively on AV1 codebase).
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Originally Posted by mzso
Then they could have moved on to AV2 which drastic/revolutionary changes.
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AV1 was never meant to have revolutionary changes - it needs to get to the market rather quickly (to still take advantage of HEVC licensing uncertainty).