While I agree, my point was that encoding needs to be more efficient, both in time, and resource consumption. That isn’t quite there yet, for AV1. It is improving, albeit slowly.
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VibeSurgeon@piefed.social 1 month agoHardware encoder support I think is generally less critical. Decoding is the process that needs to happen real-time, while most encoding can be done far in advance, unless you’re live broadcasting or operating at YouTube-scale.
plz1@lemmy.world 1 month ago
baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
non apple chips can pretty much all hardware encode AV1 nowadays. it’s really just apple doing its own thing again
plz1@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s too bad the GPU prices are utter insanity due to the LLM pyramid scheme poaching global RAM. I read an article yesterday that said Apple is likely eating that RAM overhead as a loss to ensure their long term strategy.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
On a media server encoding is typically done in real time
VibeSurgeon@piefed.social 1 month ago
It depends on what the receiving unit can decode. Sometimes there will be transcoding, but it’s usually something you want to avoid.