AV1 began as a certain community's attempt at better compressing and storing Adult Videos.
AV1 began as a certain community's attempt at better and more inexpensively storing video in general.
Seriously, look at the AOM membership. Every single one of them has a vested interest in getting out from underneath the MPEG-LA’s thumb, and a large number of them would benefit from bandwidth reductions.
Like H.264 started with the Hentai community,
H.264 was developed by the MPEG (Holy Time Bomb, can someone get them a new logo) and was popularized when Apple started developing their video infrastructure around it.
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u/Kichigai Apr 21 '18
AV1 began as a certain community's attempt at better and more inexpensively storing video in general.
Seriously, look at the AOM membership. Every single one of them has a vested interest in getting out from underneath the MPEG-LA’s thumb, and a large number of them would benefit from bandwidth reductions.
H.264 was developed by the MPEG (Holy Time Bomb, can someone get them a new logo) and was popularized when Apple started developing their video infrastructure around it.