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Re:AV1 beats x264 and libvpx-vp9 in practical use case by TheForumTroll on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @05:36AM (#16809438)
How is serving better quality with less bandwidth "ham fisted"? Both Netflix and Google says the codec is better. If anyone was ham fisted it was Apple who fought to stop free codecs'.
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Re:AV1 beats x264 and libvpx-vp9 in practical use case by acdha on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @08:34AM (#16810430)
He explained that in the same sentence. An imperceptible quality improvement is not worth an order of magnitude increase in CPU usage, and the network savings aren’t enough to make up for dropped frames on hardware which is more than a year old.
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Re:AV1 beats x264 and libvpx-vp9 in practical use case by abritinthebay on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @11:27AM (#16812096)
Netflix says VP9 is 20% worse than 265... so what are you referring to?
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