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Originally Posted by soresu
A more interesting question is whether AV1 will be more amenable to parallel implementations than VP9, or even HEVC - which was a key goal originally for Daala, given the slow progress in CPU single thread performance, GPGPU or some other massively parallel accelerator represents a far more efficient target, and OTOY's ORBX codec shows that it can be done, strange that they are completely absent from the Alliance to be honest.
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Why do you believe VP9 was not parallelizable? I think FFmpeg's decoder showed that parallelism is not an issue. The fact that Google's decoder didn't use parallelism has nothing to do with the format.