tl;dr AV1 is a new video encoding format which now has hardware acceleration through VA-API on Linux

  • mekhos
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    22 years ago

    Hmm, does this mean video on raspberry Pi will become bearable?

    • ᗪᗩᗰᑎ
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      2 years ago

      Only if the raspberry pi has a hardware decoder for AV1, otherwise it’s stuck doing decoding video in CPU, which is not very efficient. It may make sense to keep things in x26[4,5] which has better general hardware support.