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Sometimes the choice of the encoding is affected by the target audience. Devices like Raspberry Pi can decode H.264 video well enough due to having the hardware
by hddherman 5y ago
Sometimes the choice of the encoding is affected by the target audience. Devices like Raspberry Pi can decode H.264 video well enough due to having the hardware to accelerate it. Some new hardware, like the AMD Radeon RX 6500, still don’t support AV1 decode.
Changes like this tend to take time, especially due to hardware development having a years-long lead time.
- rektide 5y agoPersonally I'd rather folks shoot high, aim for great, & if someone has special needs, they can transpile out their suboptimal version as they like. Software rendering at 1080p should work just fine for everyone. Even if a pi cant realtime decode a high bit rate av1, it probably can re-encode a movie overnight, maybe in a day. That is a chore, yes, but in return we get to be transfering the best quality available, we're getting much better results. I dont think there's any reason to wait. The good stuff should start getting seeded. We need media servers to help fill in the gap, do overnight non-real-time transcoding.