The AV2 video codec, successor to AV1 and developed by the Alliance for Open Media, appears set for official release on May 29, 2026. Key indicators include a version bump to 1.0.0 in the AVM reference implementation repository and a changelog pre-dated for that date. This follows the recent release of Dav2d, an open-source AV2 decoder by VideoLAN. AV2 offers better compression efficiency over AV1 and is royalty-free. The timing coincides with Computex in Taipei, giving hardware vendors an opportunity to showcase AV2 support.
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