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Re:Modern codecs like AV1 can bring better quality video to ... by mehrdadn on Sunday July 15, 2018 @07:11PM (#17537616)
> Yes, currently there is no hardware encoder/decoder for AV1, but there is for h264 on many processors. This may change in the future if companies and users adopt it.

Does x86/x64 have any? What's the name of one of the instructions (for example)? I feel like mostly all I see is just bigger vector instructions...

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Re:Modern codecs like AV1 can bring better quality video to ... by vortico on Sunday July 15, 2018 @08:05PM (#17537828)
It's not a collection of x86_64 instructions, it's an separate specialized core on Intel CPUs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quick_Sync_Video#Hardwar... and AMD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Coding_Engine You need OS-dependent driver code to access it. Otherwise, if a decoder just uses x86_64 instructions, it's a software decoder.
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Re:Modern codecs like AV1 can bring better quality video to ... by mehrdadn on Sunday July 15, 2018 @08:10PM (#17537842)
Whoa!!! So there's a CPU, a GPU, and a dedicated video decoder?? I had no idea. Thanks for sharing this!!
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Re:Modern codecs like AV1 can bring better quality video to ... by brewrwe on Monday July 16, 2018 @02:05AM (#17539087)
Yeah, its called a VPU aka Video Processing Unit. If your hardware implements video decoding, they likely have licensed or designed their own VPU IP block.
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