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AV1 video codec gains broader hardware support

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Re: AV1 video codec gains broader hardware support

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Post by arbitrarian »

According to the article, it's supported by every browser except Edge. It will be interesting to see who ultimately ends up making a better IE, Safari or Microsoft. So far, it seems Safari is winning, given the ever growing set of standards they don't support, but maybe this is Edge trying to catch up?

Re: AV1 video codec gains broader hardware support

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Post by londons_explore »

BoumTAC wrote: post #5

Perhaps this might seem like a basic question, but why has it taken so long for processors to support AV1, given that it has been out for years?

Design cycles of hardware is long.

The person who benefits from a more efficient codec tends to be netflix/youtube (lower bandwidth costs), and they are far far removed from the chipmaker - market forces get very weak at that distance.

Re: AV1 video codec gains broader hardware support

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Post by adrian_b »

FirmwareBurner wrote: post #3
llcooliovice wrote: post #2

Now supported by the Apple M3 chips.

Only decode, not encode. Intel ARC GPUs also do encode.

Also the AMD Phoenix CPUs for laptops (7640/7840/7940), the AMD RDNA 3 GPUs and the NVIDIA RTX 4000 GPUs support AV1 encoding.

Re: AV1 video codec gains broader hardware support

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Post by ZeroGravitas »

BoumTAC wrote: post #5

Perhaps this might seem like a basic question, but why has it taken so long for processors to support AV1, given that it has been out for years?

AV1 isn't particularly behind schedule compared with previous codec generstions. We could and should have moved faster if everything went well but Qualcomm in particular were being awkward about IP issues.

Luckily the effort behind the David software codecs kept up the rollout momentum.

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