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>Most of the video you encode on a computer is actually all in software/CPU because the quality and efficiency is better. That was the case up to like 5 to 10
by Dalewyn 2y ago
>Most of the video you encode on a computer is actually all in software/CPU because the quality and efficiency is better.
That was the case up to like 5 to 10 years ago.
These days it's all hardware encoded and hardware decoded, not the least because Joe Twitchtube Streamer can't and doesn't give a flying fuck about pulling 12 dozen levers to encode a bitstream thrice for the perfect encode that'll get shat on anyway by Joe Twitchtok Viewer who doesn't give a flying fuck about pulling 12 dozen levers and applying a dozen filters to get the perfect decode.
- imbnwa 2y agoNot sure why downvoted, all of serious Plex use runs on hardware decode on Intel iGPUs down to an i3. One only sources compute from the CPU for things like subtitles or audio transcoding
- timc3 2y agoIt’s not all hardware encoded - we have huge numbers of transcodes a day and quality matters for our use case. Certainly for some use cases speed and low CPU matter but not all.