Comment by dao-
10 years ago
Note that Daala has been discontinued in favor of AV1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOMedia_Video_1
Previously Daala was presented as a candidate for NETVC but apparently this didn't go anywhere? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NETVC
A lot of Daala tools are now being copied into AV1, the largest being PVQ: https://aomedia-review.googlesource.com/#/c/3220/
The demos are still neat, and some of the ideas are being used in AV1.
Daala continues to be research platform for new ideas. New techniques are a lot easier to prototype in Daala than in more mature code bases.
I'm not sure if there's been an official announcement, but I had assumed that AV1 was going to be adopted/ratified as NETVC so that it's got a standards body rubber stamp, as well as the practical adoption/support from browser vendors, GPU manufacturers, streaming sites etc.