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$20K Bounty Offered for Optimizing Rust Code in Rav1d AV1 Decoder

In March of 2023 we announced that we were starting work on a safer high performance AV1 decoder called rav1d, written in Rust. We partnered with Immunant to do the engineering work. By September of 2024 rav1d was basically complete and we learned a lot during the process. Today rav1d works well—it passes all the same tests as the dav1d decoder it is based on, which is written in C. It’s possible to build and run Chromium with it.

In March of 2023 we announced that we were starting work on a safer high performance AV1 decoder called rav1d, written in Rust. When the contest ends (likely either because we met our goal or time has run out) we will, at our discretion, divide the bounty proportionally between the largest contributors to performance gains. At the end of the day, we reserve the right to award the money to the person(s) or team(s) that we deem to have helped us reach or exceed performance parity in the best possible way.

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