AOMedia AV1 2.0 Codec Library Released With Many Improvements

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AOMedia AV1 2.0 Codec Library Released With Many Improvements

Version 2.0 of the libaom AOMedia AV1 video encoder / video codec SDK library is now available as the first major update in nearly two years...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AOMedia-libaom-2.0-Released

[C8292]

i really hope that AV1 becomes a̶ the standard

[Ahmad_S792]

I would hope that it would become standard but with hardware accelerated decoding because otherwise it will drain your cpu.

[andrei_me]

i really hope that AV1 becomes THE standard

Fixed that for you

[quikee]

I would hope that it would become standard but with hardware accelerated decoding because otherwise it will drain your cpu.

What will it drain from the CPU?

[skeevy420]

What will it drain from the CPU?

Water from all the leaky pipes that are plumbed into the kernel.

[Brisse]

Water from all the leaky pipes that are plumbed into the kernel.

Especially the steam valves which are very prone to leaking.

[c2p_]

I would hope that it would become standard but with hardware accelerated decoding because otherwise it will drain your cpu.

Does anybody really care about hardware accelerated decoding? When I had shitty double-core i3 or Core2Duo or Celeron before that I was happy that decoding can be offloaded to GPU because even low-end xx50 and xx30 nVidia cards did better job than CPU. But today when multi-core CPUs are in the mainstream it only makes sense on mobile. I finally gave up on HA in Firefox because now I can watch YT 4K on my two year old six-core cpu and it is far from overheating and doesn't skip frames.

[bug77]

Does anybody really care about hardware accelerated decoding? When I had shitty double-core i3 or Core2Duo or Celeron before that I was happy that decoding can be offloaded to GPU because even low-end xx50 and xx30 nVidia cards did better job than CPU. But today when multi-core CPUs are in the mainstream it only makes sense on mobile. I finally gave up on HA in Firefox because now I can watch YT 4K on my two year old six-core cpu and it is far from overheating and doesn't skip frames.

TVs don't run i3s

[c2p_]

TVs don't run i3s

Ok. HA makes sense on mobile, set-top boxes and TVs (embedded), on PCs - no.