I don’t even use av1 for anything. 🤷
Streaming sites use them so there’s a solid chance you’ve used it plenty without actively choosing to
I don’t use it, I can’t speak to anyone else using it. If YouTube is sending it out that’s them using it. None of my files are that codec.
AV1 is one of the codecs that youtube uses. Not all videos have an AV1 version available though.
So you just don’t watch it in that case?
Yeah, totally. 🙄
Booo…
AV1 + OPUS for life!
What about AV2 + Opus though!?
It’s not even out yet…
“for life” covers that eventuality :P
We’ll see. I’m hoping I won’t have to replace my vast collection of AV1 encoded series as I had with H264 & H265.
No Raspi support for AV1 either. I’m stuck in patent hell HEVC land.
There’s always the CPU decoding.
Honestly, that’s how the codec game works. Most people or software don’t adopt until after the successor is in place. It’s more about the software side lagging to adopt though. Nvidia just got AV1 into their hardware processing pipeline in the last 2 years. I think AMD is even more recent than that.
Surprisingly enough first to adopt av1 into GPU was intel with arc GPUs
Intel was one of the funding corporations for that initial APM codec work, so that’s not shocking at all.
that’s how the codec game works.
That, and add some patent pools filled with dubious claims of essentiality, sales deals made under the threat of litigation, and ever-present claims of “twice as efficient it’s predecessor” with a big asterisk. Fun times.
Pft AV7 is where it’s at.
Look at those sleek lines, it all interlocks.
AV7 is clearly the best.
Av7 - oh god imagine if you pulled that seven in a bit. Sexy.
Oh shoot, you’re onto something there! Ah you got me thinking about graphic design now! Good eye though ;)
Why do we need more codecs? Technical progress is nice but unless the new thing is literally 5x better than the old thing, media codecs are for practical purposes a solved problem by now. Slight improvements aren’t worth the churn and patent hazards.
AV2 provides enhanced support for AR/VR applications, split-screen delivery of multiple programs, improved handling of screen content, and an ability to operate over a wider visual quality range.
Thanks, that sounds mostly like container features. Maybe that helps.
Isn’t AV1 patent free?
Yes and no. Hardware = pay google - Proprietary software = pay google or 3rd party - Open source (d@v1d) = free (this is what most people use = VLC Player)
I don’t know, but if it is, why take chances with yet another codec? The hazard is less about the developers asserting patents than trolls coming out of the woodwork after the codec is deployed.
Imagine living in a place where software patents exist
