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Re:Modern codecs like AV1 can bring better quality video to ... by ysleepy on Sunday July 15, 2018 @04:29PM (#17536900)
It did with H265, the prototype implementations were horribly slow.
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Re:Modern codecs like AV1 can bring better quality video to ... by threeseed on Sunday July 15, 2018 @04:53PM (#17537026)
Except that "The AV1 reference encoder is [as of today] a hundred times slower than an HEVC one"

https://www.ibc.org/delivery/codec-wars-the-battle-between-h...

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Re:Modern codecs like AV1 can bring better quality video to ... by baobrien on Sunday July 15, 2018 @06:28PM (#17537444)
Does it matter? It's still a reference encoder. AFAIK, the AV1 bitstream is barely frozen. Is he talking about the working model HEVC encoder right after they froze it, or the final reference encoder before people started working on hardware implementations? The Current AV1 reference being some amount slower than some HEVC reference says nothing in itself about room for improvement.
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