The free video codec Daala making progress: in the last 18 months, the files are shrunk 50% (with the same image quality) - so Daala H.264 has overhauled and is almost as good as H2.65 / HEVC or AV1. The quality of still images has been improved by 20% and is therefore better than that of HEVC - at least according to the PSNR-HVS-M tests. From the subjective quality you can convince the linked page is the interactive comparison between the current version of Daala, HEVC, WebP and JPEG itself. Interesting is also the judgment that the new, human perception more detailed test procedures of Netflix is felling about the progress. There, the developer Jean-Marc Valin explained thevarious new methods of compression that has been tested in the Daala project as Lapping, Frequency Domain Intra Prediction, Tme Frequency Resolution Swichting, Chroma From Luma, Intra Paint, Perceptual Vector Quantization and Directional deringing filter. The most promising have been integrated into the current version Daala and (sooner or later) and in the development of free OpenMedia AV1 video codecs incorporated. The AV1 codec is developed as an open source project, among others, Amazon, AMD, ARM, Cisco, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla, Nvidia and Netflix on the basis of existing codecs VP10, Daala and Thor and to the end of 2016 / early 2017 in a first version are published. It is intended to provide, inter alia, for network applications a free alternative to the licensed H.265 / HEVC codec more infos at bei people.xiph.org
human perception more detailed test procedures of Netflix is felling about the progress. There, the developer Jean-Marc Valin explained thevarious new methods of compression that has been tested in the Daala project as Lapping, Frequency Domain Intra Prediction, Tme Frequency Resolution Swichting, Chroma From Luma, Intra Paint, Perceptual Vector Quantization and Directional deringing filter. The most promising have been integrated into the current version Daala and (sooner or later) and in the development of free OpenMedia AV1 video codecs incorporated. The AV1 codec is developed as an open source project, among others, Amazon, AMD, ARM, Cisco, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla, Nvidia and Netflix on the basis of existing codecs VP10, Daala and Thor and to the end of 2016 / early 2017 in a first version are published. It is intended to provide, inter alia, for network applications a free alternative to the licensed H.265 / HEVC codec 
more infos at bei people.xiph.org
