'After three years in development the Alliance for Open Media is releasing the royalty-free AOMedia Video Codec 1.0 (AV1) specification. The AV1 codec promises an average of 30 percent greater compression over competing codecs according to independent member tests. The release of AV1 includes: * Bitstream specification to enable the next-generation of silicon * Unoptimized, experimental software decoder and encoder to create and consume the bitstream * Reference streams for product validation * Binding specifications to allow content creation and streaming tools for user-generated and commercial vid' -- source: https://news.slashdot.org/story/18/03/28/1610215 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/