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It sounds like this codec is dead in the water before it has even begun.
1. There is no requirement for a single patent pool for the high profile version.
2. 2 years to publish patent licensing conditions is a long time. No-one is going to decide to adopt it during those 2 years due to the mess that HEVC licensing is.
3. Why would anyone want the free baseline profile that will offer roughly the same quality as HEVC when AV1 already matches that description but has already been ratified and will have hardware decoders way sooner? This would mean hardware chip vendors would have to use even more die space to add another codec decoder on their chips which many would not want to do.
4. Given that VVC will be ratified just months after this providing significantly more compression than this why would someone adopt the paid high profile version of this instead of paying a higher amount to licence the greatly superior VVC that will also have much greater hardware decoding support?
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