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

  • Peter1986c
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    3 years ago

    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).

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      3 years ago

      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.