> I'm really hoping we see some early hardware encoding/decoding implementations for AV1 given the number of companies who are in support of it. Hardware decod

> I'm really hoping we see some early hardware encoding/decoding implementations for AV1 given the number of companies who are in support of it. Hardware decoding is fine. Hardware encoding is fine if you want to live-capture something. But if you want to optimize for quality/byte then hardware encoders usually fall short and I assume they would do even more so with something as complex as AV1. I'm more curious why encoders are all-CPU and not offloading some parts of the search to GPGPU code.