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Is AV1 encoding still many times slower / more computationally intensive than other codecs? I think when they were developing it, it was said that the differen
by dgreensp 3y ago
Is AV1 encoding still many times slower / more computationally intensive than other codecs? I think when they were developing it, it was said that the difference would mostly disappear as encoders got more optimized. (Not because of hardware encoding, apparently; I am learning that in contrast to hardware decoding, hardware encoding is limited and isn't a win if quality is important.)
- ksec 3y agoAV1 quality encoding complexity will always be higher than most older codec. That is by nature, I put emphasise on quality, because you could arguably disable all the AV1 features and lower the complexity to VP9 or h.264 level. But then you dont get the bitrate reduction benefits. Whether that higher computing requirement is justify will be up to debate. And depending on your usage people will have different trade offs.