It’s not every day a video codec wins an Emmy. But yesterday, the Television Academy honored the AV1 specification with a Technology & Engineering Emmy Award, recognizing its impact on how the world delivers video content.

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[–] 1 point 10 months ago (7 children)

Hopefully they will fix the encode speed with AV2. You need a super computer to encode AV1 in a reasonable amount of time. H.265 is significantly faster for a similar quality.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I mean, you generally decode an asset several magnitudes more often than encoding it, and decoding basically must happen real-time, while encoding can most often happen ahead-of-time. Having encodes be a bit on the slower side if it gains you higher compression is arguably worth it.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago*

    encoding can most often happen ahead-of-time.

    If you're counting in terms of viewer hours, then sure. However, given the rise of Twitch-style live broadcasts, I think the picture would be noticeably different if you were to count programming hours instead. High quality real-time encoding is becoming much more widely relevant.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    no one wants to pay royalties to mpeg consortium

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    No, but I don't want to wait a day or more for a movie to encode either.

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