AOMedia Announces Year-End Launch of Next-Gen Video Codec AV2

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Post by future10se » Mon, Sep 15, 2025, 5:44 PM UTC

Re: AOMedia Announces Year-End Launch of Next-Gen Video Codec AV2

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Post by HelloUsername » Mon, Sep 15, 2025, 6:35 PM UTC

Is there any consumer-level hardware available that supports AV1 encoding yet?

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Post by cma » Mon, Sep 15, 2025, 6:40 PM UTC

HelloUsername wrote: post #2

Is there any consumer-level hardware available that supports AV1 encoding yet?

Last two generations of nvidia or so https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NVENC

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Post by SpecialistK » Mon, Sep 15, 2025, 6:40 PM UTC

HelloUsername wrote: post #2

Is there any consumer-level hardware available that supports AV1 encoding yet?

Intel Arc, AMD Radeon 7000 series, Pixel 8, GeForce 40, and a few others.

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Sep 15, 2025, 6:41 PM UTC

HelloUsername wrote: post #2

Is there any consumer-level hardware available that supports AV1 encoding yet?

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Post by jl6 » Mon, Sep 15, 2025, 6:50 PM UTC

Is this intended to be competitive with h.266/VVC? And is it?

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Post by throw0101d » Mon, Sep 15, 2025, 7:03 PM UTC

HelloUsername wrote: post #2

Is there any consumer-level hardware available that supports AV1 encoding yet?

See "Encoding" column in table:

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Post by djfobbz » Mon, Sep 15, 2025, 7:12 PM UTC

Anyone use AV1? How good is it? What are your thoughts on AV2?

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Post by dylan604 » Mon, Sep 15, 2025, 7:15 PM UTC

"AV1 adoption is accelerating"

But before it is widely used and accepted, here's AV2 for you to have compatibility issues with in the wild

With the ubiquity of h.264 and the patents expiring, will anyone but streamers care?

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Post by Caspy7 » Mon, Sep 15, 2025, 7:18 PM UTC

djfobbz wrote: post #8

Anyone use AV1? How good is it? What are your thoughts on AV2?

Lots of people are using AV1. They just don't know it.