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Dav2d
VideoLAN announces dav2d, an open source AV2 decoder — continuing the work started with dav1d for AV1.
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VideoLAN announces dav2d, an open source AV2 decoder — continuing the work started with dav1d for AV1.
I'm the president of VideoLAN, one of the lead developers of VLC and a maintainer of open source multimedia projects. I created several startups, was the CTO of scale-ups, and advised startups and VCs.