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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.
From what I saw on a chart from NVIDIA’s website only the 4XXX RTX series even has hardware support for AV1 encoding, since I happened to be looking into the exact same thing last week lol. It does look amazing and should save so much space and bandwidth in the future!
Yeah, hardware encoding is very new, but you can get an Intel Arc 700-series card and get it via QuickSync for pretty cheap if you have a spare x16 slot and really, really need it right now. Only those, Nvidia’s 4000 series, and AMD’s 7000 series support encode. 3000 and 6000 series for each company support hardware decode, though.
Just need to get phones on the hardware decode train! Qualcomm and Apple, step up your game!