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Dav2d: notes on a new video decoding project

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The source page for this item is a blog post titled “Dav2d” on jbkempf.com, the personal site of VideoLAN/VLC founder Jean-Baptiste Kempf. Based on the title alone, the post appears to introduce or discuss Dav2d, a name that fits the naming convention of dav1d, the well-known AV1 software decoder maintained under the VideoLAN umbrella, suggesting a successor or sibling project likely aimed at the next-generation AV2 codec.

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