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Videolan Dav2d

https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav2d
51•dabinat•1h ago

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jzebedee•31m ago
Project description:

  dav2d is the fastest AV2 decoder on all platforms :)
  Targeted to be small, portable and very fast.
If you're out of the loop like me:

  AV2 is the next-generation video coding specification from the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia). Building on the foundation of AV1, AV2 is engineered to provide superior compression efficiency, enabling high-quality video delivery at significantly lower bitrates. It is optimized for the evolving demands of streaming, broadcasting, and real-time video conferencing. 
- from https://av2.aomedia.org/
tensor•20m ago
Not on topic, but wow the internet has very quickly devolved into: click -> "making sure you're not a bot", click -> "making sure you're a human", click -> "COOKIES COOKIES COOKIES", click -> "cloudflare something something"
port11•18m ago
The internet is such a Tragedy of the Commons… its citizens that act selfishly and in bad faith will slowly make it unusable.
tosti•13m ago
I get exactly none of that. Is your adblocker still working?
xnx•18m ago
Not sure "Dav2d" is a great name considering structural similarity to "D4vd", who ("allegedly"?) murdered and dismembered a 14 year-old girl.
cosmotic•16m ago
Its a followup to their existing Dav1d decoder (av1, av2)
NewsaHackO•8m ago
It's just unfortunate. Like there was a pharmaceutical company named "Isis" that changed their name due to the association with the terrorist group. That said, while people will notice for the next couple of months, I don't think it warrants changing a name for.
virtualritz•6m ago
And who ever heard of this in the majority of the world? It was news to me, I'm white and European btw.

Did you know the US consititues about 4% of humans? When we look at adults and age range that likely ever hear of D4vd we are talking probably considerably less that 1%.

The rest of humanity has no negative association with these four letters.

Zopieux•16m ago
>video decoder implementation

>look inside

>it's C

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