As a person with casual interest in open-source codecs I have a hard time finding out what the latest status is.

Is there a site somewhere that lists the most likely candidates for video/audio/image compression codecs, has a concise summary of their status/funding/legal challenges/backers/etc, and shows or links to metrics comparing them to each other and to commercial competitors?

This domain changes so much and so often it's really hard to keep track... I remember hearing about flif and AV1 and Daala and 10 others and how they are going to change the world, but when I circle back to catch up on the latest half of them have been renamed, or become mired in legal issues, or folded in to another project, or superseded by a newer/better format, etc, and it's really hard to piece together the story from the tangled mass of blog posts and news articles and websites and forum posts that all explain 1/100th of the story.

I'm crossing my fingers that there is a site somewhere called something like whatsupwithfreecodecs.com or dowehaveubiquitousfreecodecsyet.com

I want to answer such questions as "is there a more open format I can consider for this audio release? what are the tradeoffs?" and "if I choose a libre video codec, will youtube accept it?" and "why isn't X codec widely supported in hardware yet?" and "how does X libre codec compare to Y commercial codec?" and "which codecs are supported by which browsers/OSs/phones/etc"

I can answer those questions, it just currently requires like 2 hours of googling and sorting through conflicting forum comments, un-dated blog posts, etc.

(On the flip side, there are e.g. wikipedia articles that have extensive matrices of codecs, but 95% of the entries aren't particularly relevant these days and it's impossible to see the signal in all the noise.)

Thanks for any pointers!