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AV1 is goddamn magic. (pawb.social)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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that's it that's the post.

JK, but seriously though. AV1 is incredible and I NEED support for hardware decoding to accelerate and fast. I just shoved an 18GB Blu-ray movie into 5 gigs with room for improvement. I can get stream worthy 1080p60 video at 6000kbps when I need at least double that if I use x264. Even at a ok encode speed, the 1080 6000kbps video on YouTube looks pretty good all things considered - sure my super high bitrate x264 video looks clearer, but it's also at least double the file size on my disk.

I could probably real-time CPU encode my streams with AV1. I could definitely do it even better with hardware encoding.

AV1 is black magic. It feels wrong.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Hardware encoding is worse quality than software encoding iirc (per filesize). libaom should be the best quality codec but it encodes the slowest I believe? Idk the last time I checked on AV1 was like a couple years ago and the encoders are always in flux. You can use vmaf for a deterministic scoring system for quality if you don't want to pixel hunt.