Xpra: Ticket #1668: av1 codec

Alliance for Open Media

Gstreamer conference presentation AV1: The Quest is Nearly Complete
rav1e: The fastest and worstest AV1 compressor
it's truly free
based on vp9
more space efficient (uses ~25% less bandwidth than vp9)
200 times slower than vp9! but will be optimized, and available in hardware implementations
has code for handling computer screen sharing (palette mode, etc)

Mon, 23 Oct 2017 05:48:39 GMT - Antoine Martin: status changed

status changed from new to assigned

Tue, 06 Feb 2018 03:27:37 GMT - Antoine Martin: milestone changed

milestone changed from 3.0 to 3.1

According to PDF version, the AV1 codec is currently more than 2500 times slower than VP9.

Fri, 09 Mar 2018 17:59:53 GMT - urzds: cc set

cc dennis.schridde@… added

Sat, 21 Apr 2018 03:23:22 GMT - Antoine Martin:

ffmpeg 4.0 uses mozilla aom, and the faster rav1e does ~5 fps encoding @ 480p (see issue #124) (ouch!)

Sat, 21 Sep 2019 12:19:33 GMT - Antoine Martin: milestone changed

milestone changed from 3.1 to 4.1

Wed, 29 Jul 2020 14:49:37 GMT - Antoine Martin: milestone changed

milestone changed from 4.1 to future

Still orders of magnitude too slow.

Why AV1 Encoding is not Ready for Real-Time Streaming

Sat, 23 Jan 2021 05:30:35 GMT - migration script:

this ticket has been moved to: https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/issues/1668