Demonstrating Real Time AV2 Decoding on Consumer Laptops (aomedia.org)

Alliance for Open Media members Google and VideoLAN (with support from THX) demonstrated real-time AV2 decoding on consumer laptops. One demo used VLC 4 with an AV2 reference decoder plugin in a native desktop app on macOS, while another used a Chrome-based pipeline to stream AV2 content from YouTube to a gaming laptop at 1080p/24fps. The post emphasizes feasibility and integration using reference implementations rather than final performance results, and notes that further optimization and production-grade work is still ongoing.