An overview of AOM: The Alliance for Open Media
summary
Seven companies form the Alliance for Open Media to produce AV1 an open and royalty-free next gen codec targeting ~50% bitrate savings over VP9 with full spec bitstream conformance and hardware RTLs; experiments currently show ~25–30% improvement, target bitstream freeze H1 2017. Working groups and shared content (YouTube Netflix etc) guide design; decoder cost aims ~+50% complexity while encoders may be ~10x more costly; RTC and VR use cases get parallel attention.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:35The nature of video data
- 5:40Why AOM
- 11:10The counterbalance effect
- 14:33Ecosystem shifts
- 15:56Initial goals
- 17:24Format baseline
- 17:54Working groups
