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I guess that means people can go and run the reference code and start comparing the results for real now.
Hopefully an adaptation will get added to FFMPEG and Handbrake so we can have a play with it too.
now
Full-length encodes will take days to finish, and we are not talking single digits.
An almost, but not really, practical encoder will probably take at least a year of development before it’s ready.
And anyway, do end-users still care about codecs (beyond decoding complexity/hardware support)?
Typical end users do not. Companies do because it will save them money.
Enthusiasts will care because it could save them storage space for equivalent quality, though if the cost of encoding is so high then just in terms of energy costs you may save money just going for a cheaper codec and upgrading storage with the saved money.