News AV1 Up Reduces CPU Encoding Times By Up To 34 Percent

[Admin]

A new AOM-AV1 up was just released by Google, improving AV1's encoding performance by up to 34% with 16 encoding threads or more.

AV1 Up Reduces CPU Encoding Times By Up To 34 Percent : Read more

 

[-Fran-]

Oh, you know this makes me happy, LOL.

I'll test it as soon as OBS gets it.

Regards xD

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

I'm still rooting for H.266 VVC.

 

[dk382]

I'm still rooting for H.266 VVC.

VVC will be useful for video archival, and maybe some streaming services will use it, but AV1 will be the codec of choice for streaming and youtube since it's faster, free, and funded by google.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

VVC will be useful for video archival, and maybe some streaming services will use it, but AV1 will be the codec of choice for streaming and youtube since it's faster, free, and funded by google.

Let's be honest, the Free & Funded by Google is the main reason they'll be using it.
They want to avoid paying any form of payments / royalties to MPEG.

 

[RedBear87]

VVC will be useful for video archival, and maybe some streaming services will use it, but AV1 will be the codec of choice for streaming and youtube since it's faster, free, and funded by google.

Broadcasting is probably going to use VVC as well, early this year in February DVB approved VVC as its next generation video codec, while AV1 is still under review.

 

[TechyInAZ]

Oh, you know this makes me happy, LOL.

I'll test it as soon as OBS gets it.

Regards xD

Oh I know you are! 🤣

 

[TheOtherOne]

Comparing the difference with two decades older tech just to brag it's 50% more efficient! Where is the comparison to h265? 🤨¯\(ツ)/¯

 

[mitch074]

Comparing the difference with two decades older tech just to brag it's 50% more efficient! Where is the comparison to h265? 🤨¯\(ツ)/¯

HEVC is on par with VP9 - AV1's predecessor in the open source world. Theoretically, AV1 is thus 30% more efficient than HEVC, but has a high cost in encoding processing power. A 34% reduction in encoding time on software solutions means that the only advantage HEVC had is shrinking. Coupled with hardware encoders in Nvidia and Intel GPUs, HEVC is less and less appealing.
Now if AMD could add AV1 encoding in its chips...

 

[ThatMouse]

AV1 must be new, because YouTube encodes in VP9 mostly. Most YouTube creators use HVEC/.265 at really high bit rates because YouTube re-compresses it. Are we all going to be encoding in AV1 then?

 

[Tex61]

AV1 must be new, because YouTube encodes in VP9 mostly. Most YouTube creators use HVEC/.265 at really high bit rates because YouTube re-compresses it. Are we all going to be encoding in AV1 then?

In 2018, YouTube began rolling out AV1.....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1#Content_providers

 

[TheOtherOne]

HEVC is on par with VP9 - AV1's predecessor in the open source world. Theoretically, AV1 is thus 30% more efficient than HEVC, but has a high cost in encoding processing power. A 34% reduction in encoding time on software solutions means that the only advantage HEVC had is shrinking. Coupled with hardware encoders in Nvidia and Intel GPUs, HEVC is less and less appealing.
Now if AMD could add AV1 encoding in its chips...

And even that is a decade old codecs by now. It would be more surprising if AV1 couldn't outperform that. HEVC has been part of mainstream media for a while now hence it would've made sense to compare AV1 with HEVC in the main article.