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> Youtube and Netflix and pretty much irrelevant for anyone else

I like it when the goalposts move in such a way that "used by services in over 50% of US households and services where 70% of all video usage come from mobile, and offers excellent bandwidth improvements for millions of users" apparently means AV1 is a failure, somehow, based on preliminary numbers for a use case (encoding) that largely isn't relevant to mobile devices (and will improve dramatically over time making encoding more usable, anyway, as all prior codecs did.)

Unfortunately for the AV1 designers, they could have realized this fatal flaw sooner, had they only consulted the grand expertise of..... a random internet forum user.



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