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Originally Posted by mandarinka
There might also be another factor at play: Google and friends siphon away those enthusiasts to work on decoders/encoders for whatever formats they come with. I guess the developers are happy doing that, but I can't help thinking that resource/creative power was kind of wasted polishing me too project like VP9, which never got good anyway. Perhaps it will be a waste with AV1 too, we shall see (hopefully not but track record from predecessors isn't good).
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If codec engineers are being siphoned away from anywhere it is other codec projects.
The guy under the name xiph_mont was working on a new audio codec called Ghost when Daala started up in earnest and it was abandoned - and he later moved to AV1 development with most of those that worked on Daala.