"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."
I can’t wait to possibly buy a card a decade from now with AV2 hardware decoding. Ain’t happening until after 2035 that’s for sure.
If we’re lucky some firmware upgrade or driver can make AV1 hardware decoding capable cards able to do AV2 as well, but I seriously doubt it - GPU manufacturers want to sell new cards all the time after all.
maybe, maybe not.
when h264 was introduced (Aug 2004), even intel had HW encoding for it with sandybridge in 2011. nvidia had at 2012
so less than 7 years.
av1 was first introduced 7 years ago and for at least two years android TVs require HW decoding for it.
And AMD rdna2 had the same 4 years ago.
so from introduction to hardware decoding it took 3 years.
I have no idea why 10 years is thrown around.
and av1 had to compete with h264 and h265 both. ( they had to decide if it was worth implementing it)
Oh yeah, I’m sure they’ll include the decoding chips sooner, and apologies I should’ve been more specific and say that it’s me that is not planning on buying a new GPU with AV2 HW decoding until a decade from now.