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

  1. Avelune specification drafts

    Index of Avelune Draft Generation 1 specification documents, historical experiments, and change discipline.

  2. Avelune Draft Generation 1 Baseline profile

    Normative Draft Generation 1 interoperability boundaries for Avelune video, audio, container, and compute backends.

  3. ALV1 video bitstream — Draft Generation 1

    Normative decoded semantics and bitstream syntax for the Draft Generation 1 ALV1 video codec.

  4. Avelune V1 — common integer and entropy coding

    Normative Draft Generation 1 integer byte order, canonical varints, and static byte rANS entropy coding.

  5. Avelune container — Draft Generation 1 (header generation 1, minor 0)

    Normative Draft Generation 1 Avelune file, front index, packet, epoch, and range container syntax.

  6. ALA1 audio bitstream — Draft Generation 1

    Normative decoded semantics and bitstream syntax for the Draft Generation 1 ALA1 audio codec.

  7. Avelune Draft Generation 1 conformance requirements

    Normative Draft Generation 1 decoder behavior, conformance vectors, and container range requirements.

  8. 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Superseded experiments are kept for project history and are not normative.

  1. Avelune Audio Candidate 0.0

    Historical Avelune audio codec experiments, retained for provenance and superseded by Draft Generation 1.

    Historical
  2. Avelune Container Candidate 0.0

    Historical Avelune container experiments, retained for provenance and superseded by Draft Generation 1.

    Historical
  3. Avelune Video Candidate 0.0

    Historical Avelune video architecture and coding experiments, retained for provenance and superseded by Draft Generation 1.

    Historical
  4. Candidate conformance requirements

    Historical candidate conformance requirements retained for provenance and superseded by Draft Generation 1.

    Historical