tl;dr AV1 is a new video encoding format which now has hardware acceleration through VA-API on Linux

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    3 years ago

    Only if the raspberry pi has a hardware decoder for AV1, otherwise it’s stuck doing decoding video in CPU, which is not very efficient. It may make sense to keep things in x264/5 which has better general hardware support.