a) AV1 with H.264 fallback
b) AV1 with H.265 for Apple and H.264 fallback.
On one hand I'm glad that patent-infested HEVC won't take off, on the other hand, I believe my phone outputs videos in HEVC or H.264 only :(
Sad cost the file sizes of H.265 are legit as.
I wonder why ffmepg can encode as H.265 if there's licensing fees?
Another factor for AVC against HEVC is, that at some resolution and bitrates, AVC still provides better results.
Every codec is patent-infested.
Sisvel has a patent pool for AV1 and AOM is being sued by the EU for not offering FRAND terms:
Can you expand on this? If I'm reading correctly, the issue is 'mandatory royalty-free cross licensing' which is supposed to bring down innovation? If yes, this sounds like some grade A bullshit.
And anyone can sue anybody for anything. Until there's a judgement it doesn't mean much. But there is an alliance around AV1 patents, and it has strong backers to fight off the trolls: https://aomedia.org/membership/members/