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Originally Posted by littlepox
It's simply too early to take a serious look at AV1 now. My own estimation would be 3 years, before it surpasses x264 for general ripping use-case. This includes decent playback support (perfect in PC platform and good enough for mobile), excellent visual quality(with comprehensive psy optimization, tuning, on a wide spectrum of bit-rate target) and affordable performance (including different levels of performance presets)
Even x265 is not completely there arguably.
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3yrs? pffft. Google and lots of other companies are working on this, development will be much faster than x265 has been. Hardware decoders for mobile will likely be ready in early 2018 and hardware decoders for pc in late 2018. I expect that in early 2019 the encoder will be good enough to replace x264, x265 and vp9.