First they will roll out AV1 to HW that DOES HAVE explicit AV1 HW decoders in silicon.
Then, they will move to hardware that, while not having AV1 HW decoders in silicon, is both beeffy and modern enough to do the AV1 decoding mostly in the GPU pipeline, whiout touching the CPU much (if at all), using the most modern OpenCL/DirectCompute/Metal (or even better, doing it in the video drivers themselves).
Then they will move to Hardware beefy enough (but not modern enough) so that it can do the AV1 rendering usi
Forget these patented tech. Use MPEG-1, it is the only format guaranteed to be patent unencumbered worldwide. MPEG-2, while expired everywhere else, has patents in Malaysia that last until 2035.
I did careful testing on videos with slow action and a lot of clear shots of faces, comparing result videos with VQProbe--IMO split frame comparisons are more trustworthy for detail comparison than metrics like VMAF. I was surprised to realize x265 captures more detail than AOM AV1 at equal file sizes, and is much faster to encode. (SVT AV1 is much worse.) AV1 would only be better at the very slow encode speeds, and those are orders of magnitude slower than x265 at "slow" speed (which is a sweet spot of eff
The point? Cheaper to use. H265 has expensive licensing fees. AV1 is open source and royalty free. If you're encoding your own shit, then no, there's probably no point, unless you're an open source purist.
And honestly, if you need to freeze frame and do side by side comparisons to really notice a difference, then does anyone (except videophiles) really care? Encoding speed isn't really an issue for commercial companies. It's a one-time operation, and they can throw as much hardware as they want at tha
1. Netflix doesn't care about encoding time, they will spend as long as needed to get good results.
2. AV1, like most of these codecs, only defines the decoder. The encoder just has to produce a complaint stream. So there are different encoder implementations, some better than others. Your encoder might be worse than what Netflix uses, similar to how MP3 encoders vary in quality quite dramatically.
First they will roll out AV1 to HW that DOES HAVE explicit AV1 HW decoders in silicon.
Then, they will move to hardware that, while not having AV1 HW decoders in silicon, is both beeffy and modern enough to do the AV1 decoding mostly in the GPU pipeline, whiout touching the CPU much (if at all), using the most modern OpenCL/DirectCompute/Metal (or even better, doing it in the video drivers themselves).
Then they will move to Hardware beefy enough (but not modern enough) so that it can do the AV1 rendering usi
Forget these patented tech. Use MPEG-1, it is the only format guaranteed to be patent unencumbered worldwide. MPEG-2, while expired everywhere else, has patents in Malaysia that last until 2035.
I did careful testing on videos with slow action and a lot of clear shots of faces, comparing result videos with VQProbe--IMO split frame comparisons are more trustworthy for detail comparison than metrics like VMAF. I was surprised to realize x265 captures more detail than AOM AV1 at equal file sizes, and is much faster to encode. (SVT AV1 is much worse.) AV1 would only be better at the very slow encode speeds, and those are orders of magnitude slower than x265 at "slow" speed (which is a sweet spot of eff
The point? Cheaper to use. H265 has expensive licensing fees. AV1 is open source and royalty free. If you're encoding your own shit, then no, there's probably no point, unless you're an open source purist.
And honestly, if you need to freeze frame and do side by side comparisons to really notice a difference, then does anyone (except videophiles) really care? Encoding speed isn't really an issue for commercial companies. It's a one-time operation, and they can throw as much hardware as they want at tha
Keep in mind two things.
1. Netflix doesn't care about encoding time, they will spend as long as needed to get good results.
2. AV1, like most of these codecs, only defines the decoder. The encoder just has to produce a complaint stream. So there are different encoder implementations, some better than others. Your encoder might be worse than what Netflix uses, similar to how MP3 encoders vary in quality quite dramatically.