Two weeks ago, Faultline dropped in a worth noting entry for the release of SVT-AV1 v2.0, the second generation of the Scalable Video Technology encoder project from the Alliance for Open Media (AOM). With the 17.0 major release landing this week, some expanding is needed, with certain inconsistencies in messaging between the two respective versions of SVT-AV1 – released five years apart. The problem with scalable versions of video codecs is that typically they tend to suffer in quality, which is why there is buzz around the simplified VBR multi-pass of SVT-AV1 v2.0 to use a 2-pass compression process—removing the 3-pass VBR mode—and allowing integration with the open source ffmpeg. Visual quality is improved with each pass, but only up…