AV2

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AOMedia Video 2 (AV2) is an open, royalty-free video coding format developed by the Alliance for Open Media, a non-profit technology development consortium. It is the successor to their existing and widely deployed AV1 encoding format, and is designed to deliver better compression performance, enhanced support for AR, VR and split-screen usage and support for a wider visual quality range. AV2 development work started in 2020, two years after the release of AV1. It was released on 28 May 2026. AV2 uses an overall encoding framework that is similar to that of AV1, but with significant innovations in every part of that framework. These include extended recursive partitioning, changes to transform block partitioning, semi-decoupled partitioning of luma and chroma, improvements to intra-frame prediction including chroma from luma, and new modes for inter-frame prediction. The Alliance for Open Media previously stated that AV2 will formally be released at the end of 2025, with hardware implementations...

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