> Given how niche and esoteric this codec is, it’s hard to find any actual competing codecs to compare against.

It'd be interesting to see benchmarks against H.264/AVC (see example "zero‑latency" ffmpeg settings below) and JPEG XS.

  -c:v libx264 -preset ultrafast -tune zerolatency \
  -x264-params "keyint=1:min-keyint=1:scenecut=0:rc-lookahead=0" \
  -bf 0 -b:v 8M -maxrate 8M -bufsize 1M