SVT-AV1 2.2 Delivers More Performance Improvements

[phoronix]

Phoronix: SVT-AV1 2.2 Delivers More Performance Improvements

SVT-AV1 2.2 is now available for this leading open-source AV1 video encoder. With this new version comes yet more performance optimizations...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/SVT-AV1-2.2-Released

[flower]

I am currently using av1_qsv for transcoding. Only thing missing is HDR Masterdata - at least color space/primaries/trc works which is enough for most of my media.
In comparison to av1_qsv svt-av1 is still too slow for me. I probably need a render farm.

I have compared both encoders and for me av1_qsv is good enough.

[sophisticles]

I am currently using av1_qsv for transcoding. Only thing missing is HDR Masterdata - at least color space/primaries/trc works which is enough for most of my media.
In comparison to av1_qsv svt-av1 is still too slow for me. I probably need a render farm.

I have compared both encoders and for me av1_qsv is good enough.

I agree.

I used to consider SVT-AV1 the best encoder available to the general public though I now prefer AOMENC for software encoding.

However, for the cast majority of use cases, hardware encoding is where it's at. especially with the fixed function low power settings, a cheap laptop can encode video faster than a high end TR using software encoding, with much less power, heat and noise and instead of having to build a whole new machine, you can just buy a cheap $100 Arc video card, pop it into your existing computer and you are good to go.

As far as quality, unless you pixel peep you will not notice the difference and if you use the detail enhance filter, you can get some really nice looking encodes.