>>800123
It's shipping next year:
>It looks like the bitstream will freeze around December 31, 2017, which has been the consistent target for the last three or four months.
>both Chrome and Firefox will enable playback support within days (if not hours) after the bitstream freezes
>In the shorter term, Srinivasan also shared that software decode optimizations, an Ittiam specialty, should appear within six months of codec freeze. These optimizations will make software decode much more palatable on a range of consumer and mobile platforms.
Quality is 20%-30% more efficient than VP9
>Netflix's director of video algorithms Anne Aaron reported that AV1 was about 20% more efficient than VP9
>Matt Frost, head of strategy and partnerships, Chrome Web Media, at Google, added that AV1 was 30-35% more efficient than VP9 in their tests
Encoding complexity will remain substantially higher than VP9 or HEVC even after optimizations:
>Bitmovin showed real time encoding of a single stream of 1080p video into AV1 format, which required up to 200 cores. However, Bitmovin CTO Christopher Mueller predicted that these requirements will drop to 8-32 cores, "sooner than later."
>expect encoding times to increase substantially over HEVC and VP9.