It’s not every day a video codec wins an Emmy. But yesterday, the Television Academy honored the AV1 specification with a Technology & Engineering Em

It’s not every day a video codec wins an Emmy. But yesterday, the Television Academy honored the AV1 specification with a Technology & Engineering Emmy Award, recognizing its impact on how the world delivers video content.

  • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    1·
    6 days ago

    Hopefully they will fix the encode speed with AV2. You need a super computer to encode AV1 in a reasonable amount of time. H.265 is significantly faster for a similar quality.

    • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.mlEnglish
      9·
      6 days ago

      I mean, you generally decode an asset several magnitudes more often than encoding it, and decoding basically must happen real-time, while encoding can most often happen ahead-of-time. Having encodes be a bit on the slower side if it gains you higher compression is arguably worth it.

      • who@feddit.orgEnglish
        2·
        6 days ago

        encoding can most often happen ahead-of-time.

        If you’re counting in terms of viewer hours, then sure. However, given the rise of Twitch-style live broadcasts, I think the picture would be noticeably different if you were to count programming hours instead. High quality real-time encoding is becoming much more widely relevant.

    • BrikoX@lemmy.zipOPMEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      It sucks on CPU, but for GPU encode even cheapest Intel Arc cards can chew through it with no problem.