Specification
Draft Generation 1 defines the current ALV1 video, ALA1 audio, AVL container, shared entropy coding, and conformance requirements.
The draft is unstable while Avelune is 0.x; incompatible format changes are allowed.
Current draft
- Avelune specification drafts
Index of Avelune Draft Generation 1 specification documents, historical experiments, and change discipline.
- Avelune Draft Generation 1 Baseline profile
Normative Draft Generation 1 interoperability boundaries for Avelune video, audio, container, and compute backends.
- ALV1 video bitstream — Draft Generation 1
Normative decoded semantics and bitstream syntax for the Draft Generation 1 ALV1 video codec.
- Avelune V1 — common integer and entropy coding
Normative Draft Generation 1 integer byte order, canonical varints, and static byte rANS entropy coding.
- Avelune container — Draft Generation 1 (header generation 1, minor 0)
Normative Draft Generation 1 Avelune file, front index, packet, epoch, and range container syntax.
- ALA1 audio bitstream — Draft Generation 1
Normative decoded semantics and bitstream syntax for the Draft Generation 1 ALA1 audio codec.
- Avelune Draft Generation 1 conformance requirements
Normative Draft Generation 1 decoder behavior, conformance vectors, and container range requirements.
- Specification changelog
Chronological record of Draft Generation 1 specification status and intentional format changes.
Historical material
Superseded experiments are kept for project history and are not normative.
- Avelune Audio Candidate 0.0
Historical Avelune audio codec experiments, retained for provenance and superseded by Draft Generation 1.
Historical - Avelune Container Candidate 0.0
Historical Avelune container experiments, retained for provenance and superseded by Draft Generation 1.
Historical - Avelune Video Candidate 0.0
Historical Avelune video architecture and coding experiments, retained for provenance and superseded by Draft Generation 1.
Historical - Candidate conformance requirements
Historical candidate conformance requirements retained for provenance and superseded by Draft Generation 1.
Historical