Modern codecs like AV1 can bring better quality video to the open web

Re:Modern codecs like AV1 can bring better quality video to ... by kuon on Sunday July 15, 2018 @11:19PM (#17538521)

How does AV1 performs when encoding fast (like realtime for twitch)? Is it possible? If yes, what is the gain over h264?

I really hope an open format will win "the war", but I can't see it work at scale if it doesn't support streaming.

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Re:Modern codecs like AV1 can bring better quality video to ... by clouddrover on Monday July 16, 2018 @01:03AM (#17538882)

Last year Bitmovin demonstrated a live 1080p AV1 stream using 32 cores:

Twitch wants to use AV1 for their streaming. They want to use the switching frame feature of AV1:

And the chroma from luma feature of AV1 works well on video game content:

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Re:Modern codecs like AV1 can bring better quality video to ... by kuon on Monday July 16, 2018 @02:38PM (#17543782)

That's really promising. I really hope we will see an open video format as standard.

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