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Firm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million — backbone codec of the internet gets meteoric increase, AVC hikes follow disastrous H.265 licensing increa (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 15 points 6 months ago (27 children)

I was gonna say, I like AV1, but my Plex server says otherwise.

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

    I'm using a 15 year old i5 and a GTX 970, having no issues with AV1 video. Curious what hardware you're running.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago* (6 children)

    Neither of those things support AV1 encoding or decoding. Curious how you’ve come to believe you’re having “no issues” with a codec your hardware has no support for.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    You don't need HW acceleration to playback AV1. Maybe they watch most of their content at 720p and are software decoding and it's been good enough.

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

    Yeah you’re going to need HW acceleration to encode AV1 on your server “without issues”.

    Theres a world of difference between something that’s technically possible and something that will just work without issues of any kind. Something being “good enough” implies the existence of caveats. Mainly being that’d be a shitty experience lol.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    Sure, but most people don't need encode. The start of this thread talks about encoding, but the person you replied to didn't specify. My guess is they're just talking about playback.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    I doubt that it's doing real time transcoding in av1, probably just sending the file "as-is" to your client device and you're noticing as modern networks allow real time streaming of files with that size

    My server with much newer components does like 5 fps in encoding av1

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

    were you trying the default av1 encoder in ffmpeg? that one is unoptimized try libsvtav1 I get hundreds of fps, albeit on a 9800x3d

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  • [–] -4 points 6 months ago (8 children)

    Time to switch to Jellyfin.

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

    Jellyfin somehow makes his hardware support AV1?

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  • [–] -5 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    I didn't ask for recommendations.

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

    Damn my bad, that changes everything! My sincere apologies!

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  • [–] -4 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    use software transcoding if thats your issue

    if plex cannot work at all with AV1, it might be time to move to a non-garbage media server like jellyfin.

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  • [–] -1 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    jellyfin is the least functional of the trinity of media servers so that’s not the best recommendation here.

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