>But even the anime/toku community doesn't use AV1 It is much too early for AV1 do see any real adoption. The existing encoders are very slow and/or lack featu

>But even the anime/toku community doesn't use AV1 It is much too early for AV1 do see any real adoption. The existing encoders are very slow and/or lack features/tuning, and hardware support is non-existant. In a year or two we will see encoder(s) at a sufficiently high optimization and quality level that it will be a candidate for high quality encodes, and if AV1 gains traction (outside of streaming) at that point I'm certain it will start in the anime scene. edit: went and searched on Nyaa, and there are actually some AV1 encodes of various content, so some people are already experimenting.