Cool I had no idea AV2 was this far along!
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AV2? The industry is barely getting support for AV1. Progress is always good, though.
This is how it's always worked. By the time X gets adopted widely, Y is finalized and being rolled out as they start laying out Z. I was encoding in h.264 in the late 2000 before the iPhone had been released and started standardization on base MP4 part 10 support. H.265 since the mid 2010's. Been encoding AV1 for years at this point. YouTube has used it as their default for a few years now too. Hardware always, always lags way behind.
AV1 or HEVC (previously) seem to only be uses for high resolution video like 2K.
As there the difference is biggest, and lacking hardware support is fine.
I only use AV1 if possible, recent-ish Intel GPUs and phones support it fine.
Btw, my soon to be EOL Pixel can encode 1080p AV1 at 0,5x speed or so, using svt-av1 (the better, but software, encoder).
Wish AV1 didn't make my plex server shit the bed.