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CoopaLoopa@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Once Intel ARC cards are supported natively in UnRaid, I’ll be transcoding everything to AV1.

Hardware encoding for AV1 is really all that has been missing for it to be widely used for homelab setups.

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Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
To someone not knowing anything, how big a deal is the difference?

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- CoopaLoopa@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Super oversimplified, but take an imaginary 1GB video file and it will compress roughly to the size below with minimal visual degradation.
  
  H.264 -> H.265 -> AV1
  
  1GB -> 600MB -> 350MB
  
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  - Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Thanks!
    
    Is it (more) cpu expensive to decode the AV1?
    
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    CoopaLoopa@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Yes. If you don’t have hardware that supports AV1 decode, it gets sent to the CPU instead.
    
    For homelab stuff, the responsibility falls on the server to transcode the media to whichever format the client device requests. That usually means being able to have ~2 simultaneous AV1 streams and maxing out the CPU.
    
    With hardware decode, you could have 10+ streams.
    
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