Intel's SVT-AV1 0.7.5 Released With AVX2 + AVX-512 Optimizations

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel's SVT-AV1 0.7.5 Released With AVX2 + AVX-512 Optimizations

Intel's crew maintaining the Scalable Video Technology open-source video encoders on Monday issued a new pre-release of SVT-AV1 in an effort to further speed-up AV1 video encoding on CPUs...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-SVT-AV1-0.7.5-Released

[smartalgorithm]

Could anyone please tell which codecs and packages should be installed in our distros to see these benefits in Chromium/Firefox/VLC? Thanks!

[Toggleton]

Could anyone please tell which codecs and packages should be installed in our distros to see these benefits in Chromium/Firefox/VLC? Thanks!

SVT-av1 is a encoder(like rav1e and libaom)

To watch AV1 Videos you need dav1d(Decoder) but Firefox and Chromium(I think VLC too) should have a build in Version of Dav1d.