According to the graph of codec popularity, taken from the paper “Towards Efficient Multi-Codec Streaming” by Yuriy A. Reznik at 2030 three codecs are popular: HEVC, H264/AVC and AV1

23+ years’ programming and theoretical experience in the computer science fields such as video compression, media streaming and artificial intelligence (co-author of several papers and patents).
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