VideoLAN Publishes Dav2d For Open-Source AV2 Decoder
While the Alliance For Open Media had been aiming for the AV2 release by the end of 2025, as of right now the AV2 specification remains in a draft status. VideoLAN developers though for months have already been working on dav2d as an open-source AV2 decoder and that code was published this weekend.
VideoLAN developers have been working on dav2d as an open-source, CPU-based AV2 video decoder. Dav2d is based off dav1d as their AV1 decoder.
The Dav2d decoder is cross-platform and aims to be fast yet focused on correctness as well. After months of work, the dav2d code is now public via the VideoLAN GitLab repository. The dav2d code is said to be "battle-tested and production-ready".
The developers behind dav2d are working on still completing a C implementation of the decoder, providing a usable API, and porting it to most platforms. There are still more performance optimizations to be tapped around AVX2 and other ISA capabilities for ARM, RISC-V, and other architectures.
Those interested can find the newly-published dav2d code via code.videolan.org. Hopefully this is also a sign that AOMedia is getting ready to promoting the AV2 specification from its current draft status.
VideoLAN developers have been working on dav2d as an open-source, CPU-based AV2 video decoder. Dav2d is based off dav1d as their AV1 decoder.
The Dav2d decoder is cross-platform and aims to be fast yet focused on correctness as well. After months of work, the dav2d code is now public via the VideoLAN GitLab repository. The dav2d code is said to be "battle-tested and production-ready".
The developers behind dav2d are working on still completing a C implementation of the decoder, providing a usable API, and porting it to most platforms. There are still more performance optimizations to be tapped around AVX2 and other ISA capabilities for ARM, RISC-V, and other architectures.
Those interested can find the newly-published dav2d code via code.videolan.org. Hopefully this is also a sign that AOMedia is getting ready to promoting the AV2 specification from its current draft status.