AV1 codec ecosystem update
>Company, which has every reason to exaggerate, claims it can improve encoding speed by 32.2% against x265 veryslow<p>"It’ll be interesting to see if we find out more info and are able to test this encoder in the coming months."<p>>BBC, which has no skin in the game, claims AV1 is less efficient than HEVC<p>"I would call this test flawed as AV1 has consistently shown to perform better than HEVC."<p>Every article on AV1 that I have read is like this, except for <a href="https://codecs.multimedia.cx/2018/12/why-i-am-sceptical-about-av1/" rel="nofollow">https://codecs.multimedia.cx/2018/12/why-i-am-sceptical-abou...</a> -- they are always blatantly cheerleading new advancements, like only being 5x slower to decode than VP9 or 10x slower to encode than x265 or whatever. But the advancements are not phrased like that, of course--you are never reminded that the competition continues to clobber AV1 in every aspect but filesize/quality efficiency.