[HN Gopher] Intel Discontinues High-Speed, Open-Source H.265/HEV...
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       Intel Discontinues High-Speed, Open-Source H.265/HEVC Encoder
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       Author : mfiguiere
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2024-08-21 18:38 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | overstay8930 wrote:
       | VVC is on the horizon, and AV1 has essentially become mainstream
       | - HEVC is simply no longer needed by anyone.
        
         | thot_experiment wrote:
         | HEVC/AV1 support is still spotty, and AV1 encoding is still
         | expensive. Though I agree that HEVC is a dead end.
        
           | zamadatix wrote:
           | How bad is the encoding gap between AV1 and HEVC for
           | equivalent qualities these days?
        
             | perchlorate wrote:
             | AV1 is already faster and has been for around three years
             | -- if you're not using the reference encoder, which is dog
             | slow, and that will probably not change. Have a gander at
             | SVT-AV1.
        
           | perchlorate wrote:
           | This is very outdated information. AV1 encoding with SVT-AV1,
           | which is a high performance encoder written by Netflix and
           | Intel, works faster than x265 (and other h.265 encoders), and
           | is much closer to x264 IIRC. With lower quality presets it
           | worked at 3-4x on my old Haswell i5. On higher ones that
           | still make sense by their own recommendations, the speed was
           | around 1x. That CPU is over 10 years old.
           | 
           | https://gitlab.com/AOMediaCodec/SVT-AV1
        
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