AV1
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOMedia_Video_1
av1 is a video codec competing with x265.
The main advantage over competing codecs is that it will be a completely open and royalty-free coding format, supported by most major players in the industry, including youtube.
It will be released in 2017.
Hardware acceleration (hardware decoding) is expected to be available about one year later.