The Daala Video Codec Project

Timothy Terriberry With the recent completion of the next-generation video codecs VP9 and HEVC, Xiph has turned our attention to the “next-next generation“. The Daala project aims to design a royalty-free codec that surpasses the performance of the best patent-encumbered formats. Unlike the rest of the industry, we are not trying to achieve superior performance through dozens of minor optimizations of the same basic coding tools in use since the 1980’s