Alliance for Open Media codecs

[benwaggoner]

Originally Posted by MoSal

It is. It's not even compatible with the final AV1 spec yet (getting close). And some encoding tools are not implemented or optimized for quality yet.

No encoding tools are well optimized for quality yet! HEVC is several years older and is still seeing substantial year-on-year perceptual quality improvements. I'm estimating we're 1+ year away from a "reasonably good" AV1 encoder, based on past encoder development.

For example, all the strobing concerns mentioned above. That's not an issue in the bitstream format at all, just about encoder implementation. It'll get addressed with better psychovisual tuning via adaptive quantization.

FWIW, my read on Golden Frames is that it started as an alternative way to get some of the advantages of b-frames and multiple reference frames while staying clear of IP around those technologies.