AV1 codec ecosystem update

Re:AV1 codec ecosystem update by Causality1 on Monday June 10, 2019 @06:39PM (#20151566)

Yeah. I can see HEVC and AV1 coexisting for a very long time. I don't see AV1 getting adopted for game streaming purposes, for instance. It'll make an excellent media archive format, but personally I'm still migrating my content from h.264 to HEVC and I don't really see myself bothering to do it all again for AV1.

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Re:AV1 codec ecosystem update by clouddrover on Monday June 10, 2019 @06:45PM (#20151610)

> I don't see AV1 getting adopted for game streaming purposes

Twitch will be doing exactly that. They're using VP9 now:

https://blog.twitch.tv/how-does-vp9-deliver-value-for-twitch...

They will be moving to AV1 in the future. They've contributed features to AV1 specifically for the low latency live streaming use case:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5sJX6VA34o

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Re:AV1 codec ecosystem update by chubs on Monday June 10, 2019 @08:13PM (#20152081)

Is it simply the case that once AV1 encoding gets done in hardware in most CPUs, all its disadvantages vanish and it becomes the obvious choice?

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Re:AV1 codec ecosystem update by threeseed on Monday June 10, 2019 @08:18PM (#20152101)

Well AV1 encoding isn't hardware accelerated on iOS/MacOS devices but then again they probably aren't that big in the games streaming space.

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