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[–] 10 points 6 months ago (6 children)

Better hardware encoder support would help, too. It's insanely inefficient to encode without that dedicated hardware, compared to h264/h265, where dedicated hardware support is there.

I was hoping Apple would add it when they shipped the M4, and now M5, but nope.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    Hardware encoder support I think is generally less critical. Decoding is the process that needs to happen real-time, while most encoding can be done far in advance, unless you're live broadcasting or operating at YouTube-scale.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    While I agree, my point was that encoding needs to be more efficient, both in time, and resource consumption. That isn't quite there yet, for AV1. It is improving, albeit slowly.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    non apple chips can pretty much all hardware encode AV1 nowadays. it's really just apple doing its own thing again

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    It's too bad the GPU prices are utter insanity due to the LLM pyramid scheme poaching global RAM. I read an article yesterday that said Apple is likely eating that RAM overhead as a loss to ensure their long term strategy.

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