Microsoft Adds AV1 Decode Support To Their Mesa D3D12 Driver

[Quackdoc]

Exactly! I'd gladly pay up to $20 (one-time purchase) for those codecs in openSUSE if they made them available.

No need, mesa has the code, you will probably find someone that can provide a package, no idea how suse deals with it, but on fedora you will almost certainly be able to get vaapi back via nonfree rpm fusion

WSL2 getting full hardware accelerated video support faster than native Linux? This really isn't a good sign...

we already have it too

Aren't they asking money for this new codec like they do with others?
I know it's an open codec, but I wouldn't be surprised if they asked money for it anyway.

no.

[Vistaus]

No need, mesa has the code, you will probably find someone that can provide a package, no idea how suse deals with it, but on fedora you will almost certainly be able to get vaapi back via nonfree rpm fusion

RPMFusion denied inclusion.

[Quackdoc]

RPMFusion denied inclusion.

Ive heard not that it was denied, but that no one was interested in maintaing it, but ive heard at least a few people are interested or at least willing to maintain it.

[Spacefish]

AV1 is the future. We see broad hardware support currently being released / released since ~2020.

- RDNA2 has AV1 decoding (so all Ryzen 7000 based machines)
- 3xxx and newer Nvidia GPUs
- Intel ARC GPUs
- Intel 12th gen and newer CPUs with an iGPU support AV1 decoding in hardware
- Chromecast (Google TV) HD (just released a few days ago)
- Next gen Fire TV Cube (amazon streaming thing) was just announced to support AV1
- Qualcoms next gen Snapdragon Platfom which is expected to release in November will have AV1 hardware decoding support
- Mediatek Dimensity 1000 and newer has AV1 support
- Samsung since Exynos 2100
- Samsung and LG Smart TVs support AV1 since the 2020 generation

There is no real need for HEVC.. h264 is on the way out as well and replaced by VP9 in most applications.

[Quackdoc]

AV1 is the future. We see broad hardware support currently being released / released since ~2020.

- RDNA2 has AV1 decoding (so all Ryzen 7000 based machines)
- 3xxx and newer Nvidia GPUs
- Intel ARC GPUs
- Intel 12th gen and newer CPUs with an iGPU support AV1 decoding in hardware
- Chromecast (Google TV) HD (just released a few days ago)
- Next gen Fire TV Cube (amazon streaming thing) was just announced to support AV1
- Qualcoms next gen Snapdragon Platfom which is expected to release in November will have AV1 hardware decoding support
- Mediatek Dimensity 1000 and newer has AV1 support
- Samsung since Exynos 2100
- Samsung and LG Smart TVs support AV1 since the 2020 generation

There is no real need for HEVC.. h264 is on the way out as well and replaced by VP9 in most applications.

HEVC is absolutely necessary since most blurays are encoded on it, and will continue to be encoded on it. (because of that sweet sweet licensing ofc). though for online content yes, a lot of people are starting to distribute av1

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AV1 is the future. We see broad hardware support currently being released / released since ~2020.

- RDNA2 has AV1 decoding (so all Ryzen 7000 based machines)*
...

*Except the Radeon RX 6400 and RX 6500 XT models.

Best not let AMD forget they released these gimped mobile GPUs into the desktop market, in the hopes they refrain from similar practice in the future.

[ezst036]

Actually many companies contribute to Linux desktop including RedHat what primary business is not related to desktop users.

The math still doesn't add up to where we really need it to be. Pick whatever numbers you want.

The features we need x y z require 100,000 man-hours in total. That can be each or it can be individually, doesn't matter. Well, the features clearly are not done. We're only at 80000 or 20000 man hours total. It is what it is. We can all see it.

This should not be confused for an insult. It's not.

[ezst036]

More people does help, but it doesn't always mean things will get realized faster.

Yes, this is true. The general rule does hold though. Larger projects require more programmers.