"Set for a year-end release, AV2 is not only an upgrade to the widely adopted AV1 but also a foundational piece of AOMedia’s future tech stack.

AV2, a generation leap in open video coding and the answer to the world’s growing streaming demands, delivers significantly better compression performance than AV1. AV2 provides enhanced support for AR/VR applications, split-screen delivery of multiple programs, improved handling of screen content, and an ability to operate over a wider visual quality range. AV2 marks a milestone on the path to an open, innovative future of media experiences."

  • ericheese@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    I haven’t seen h264 used except for bd remuxes because the blu-ray standard uses h264

    • CoyoteFacts@piefed.caEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Yeah h264 is the base codec (also known as AVC), x264 is the dominant encoder that encodes in that codec. So the base BDs are just plain h264, and remuxes will take that h264 and put it into an mkv container. Colloquially, people tag WEB-DL and BDs/remuxes as “h264” as they’re raw/untampered-with, and anything that’s been encoded by a person as “x264”. Same thing for h265/HEVC and x265, and same for h266/VVC and x266.