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>What I’m more excited about is AV1. AV1 is a next gen codec with members from many tech giants (Apple, Google, MS, etc.) to create a royalty free codec. IIRC s
by prvc 5y ago
>What I’m more excited about is AV1. AV1 is a next gen codec with members from many tech giants (Apple, Google, MS, etc.) to create a royalty free codec. IIRC some of its baseline is based on VP10, which Google scrapped and had its code donated to developing AV1. Unfortunately the reference encoder libaom is in a very early stage and takes forever to encode. SVT-AV1 is Intel’s (and joined by Netflix) scalable implementation. It performs not as well as libaom, but quality is still better than x265 (SSIM), and encode times are way more reasonable. For now, they look promising, and I am excited to see results in a few years. HEVC took 3-4 years before it was more widely accepted by Anime encoders, and took 5 years until 2018 before I began experimenting with it. AV1 began major development in mid-2018 so by that logic we got 2-3 more years to go.
Well, it's 2021 now, would be interesting to see a guide for AV1 encoding in the same vein. As I understand it, both of the leading AV1 encoders are still undergoing frequent changes and improvements, but it still would be nice to have a guide to help one to get a handle on things.
- llampx 5y agoIf I have an AMD Ryzen processor, am I SOL when it comes to AV1 encoding?
- DiabloD3 5y agoThe reverse, if you had Intel, you'd be SOL. AMD is a huge AV1 supporter, both with improving speed of software decoding and encoding, but also granting the ability to the Radeon's video ASIC to handle it.
- paol 5y agoIf you have a processor without integrated graphics (more common on AMD than Intel, although Intel also sells some) you don't get hardware accelerated encoding anyway, since that's a feature of the GPU.
- IshKebab 5y agoHardware accelerated encoding is usually lower quality anyway so you probably wouldn't use it for this sort of thing.
- llampx 5y agoI thought AV1 encoding is not hardware-accelerated yet.
- elithrar 5y agoNo current iGPU or dedicated GPU (e.g. NVENC on NVIDIA[1]) support AV1 encoding today - talking about CPU support is odd. Encoders like SVT-AV1 are software-only. [1]: https://developer.nvidia.com/video-encode-and-decode-gpu-support-matrix-new https://developer.nvidia.com/video-encode-and-decode-gpu-sup...
- prvc 5y agoNot at all.