Interesting snippet here:
https://www.streamingmedia.com/Artic...ng-131160.aspx
Quote:
what we believe is, it's really a variant of their VP9.
Jan Ozer: When you say variant you mean...
Oliver Gunasekara: So Intel bought a company called eBrisk which they then open-sourced and that is the team that has delivered this. And what they did for time to market was take their VP9 implementation and just remove all the functionality that is not appropriate for AV1, tweak the syntax to have a legal AV1. So the end result is, it is an AV1 encoder but it doesn't perform anywhere near like the capabilities that AV1 can deliver. That will come in the future.
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Basically claims the AV1-SVT encoder has barely begun development. If that's the case should be interesting to follow it's progress.
I noticed a ticket on their tracker where people were asking them to tag a pre-release so they could begin the process of integrating with Austria etc and the Devs didn't think it was ready for even a pre-release status, then a press release came out announcing version 1.0 was ready.