I dont have a card to test, but the last VMAF bench I saw shows hardware AV1 is slightly better than veryslow x264. Which is way better than hardware h.264...

I dont have a card to test, but the last VMAF bench I saw shows hardware AV1 is slightly better than veryslow x264. Which is way better than hardware h.264... but also terrible compared to svt-av1, lol. Try using av1an to parallelize (and improve the quality of) your encode. And TBH you should not re encode your library unless it has raw rips or something like that, and you are short on space.