It does cut a considerable chunk of size from a video, I’ve noticed Youtube uses AV1 in 8k more than anything. But so far only Google seems to have a decent way of converting videos to AV1 because ffmpeg is still way too slow to even consider.
Unless there’s a big leap in encoding time, I don’t see the piracy scene switching to AV1 in the next 5 years.
Well, technically speaking consumer graphics hardware usually has hardware decoders. Just not by using FPGAs and usually not for AV1 (yet). And I think that @yeolsongarak@lemmy.ml was speaking of encoding anyway.
Regardless, using FPGAs for CODEC support sounds interesting (if possible).
It does cut a considerable chunk of size from a video, I’ve noticed Youtube uses AV1 in 8k more than anything. But so far only Google seems to have a decent way of converting videos to AV1 because ffmpeg is still way too slow to even consider.
Unless there’s a big leap in encoding time, I don’t see the piracy scene switching to AV1 in the next 5 years.
This is why I wish FPGAs were cheaper and more widely used in consumer hardware. Got a new codec? Just load up a hardware decoder for it!
Well, technically speaking consumer graphics hardware usually has hardware decoders. Just not by using FPGAs and usually not for AV1 (yet). And I think that @yeolsongarak@lemmy.ml was speaking of encoding anyway.
Regardless, using FPGAs for CODEC support sounds interesting (if possible).
I can see the forum posts in my head already “HALP I BRICKED MY FPGA, AND I THINK ITS MINING SHITCOIN WITHOUT MY PERMISSION”.
Though yeh, I’m interested in it too.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply