Five years ago this week… After seeking a buyer for some time, Israeli video recommendations engine and discovery software supplier Jinni was on the verge of shutting up shop, a source told Faultline citing Ooyala as a potential savior that fell through. Jinni’s software had historically been dominant in systems built around Ericsson’s Mediaroom (now spun off as MediaKind), known to have a gaping search and recommendations-shaped hole. Historic customers also included AT&T and Time Warner Cable, and Faultline had been aware of prior Jinni switch-offs at Telefonica, Proximus, Bouygues Telecom, in place of the likes of ThinkAnalytics and Spideo. The Alliance for Open Media has released SVT-AV1 v2.0, the second generation of the Scalable Video Technology encoder project which was first debuted…