Google Releases libaom 3.7 AV1 Encoder With More Optimizations

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Google Releases libaom 3.7 AV1 Encoder With More Optimizations

Following the releases this week of Intel's SVT-AV1 1.7 encoder and the libavif 1.0 AV1 Image File Format release, Google engineers are out with libaom 3.7 as the newest feature release to that AV1 encode library...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Google-libaom-3.7-AV1

[ClosedSource]

Excuse my ignorance but how many AV1 encoders do we currently have?

[avis]

Excuse my ignorance but how many AV1 encoders do we currently have?

Three open source encoders (libaom, svt-av1, rav1e) and quite a few of closed source ones.

[ClosedSource]

While dav1d is a decoder.

[Errinwright]

Three open source encoders (libaom, svt-av1, rav1e) and quite a few of closed source ones.

Is rav1e actively developed any longer?

[JEBjames]

Michael

Typo

"and speed-ups ad memory" should be "and speed-ups and memory"

[Ranguvar]

Is rav1e actively developed any longer?

appears so, 0.6.6 was tagged May 16

https://github.com/xiph/rav1e/commits/master

[Yalok]

Three open source encoders (libaom, svt-av1, rav1e) and quite a few of closed source ones.

I wonder how they compare in performance.

[avis]

I wonder how they compare in performance.

https://forum.doom9.org/forumdisplay.php?f=84

[Yalok]

Google bard says nvenc is the fastest av1 encoder, but turns out there are many more aspects that are important besides speed: https://g.co/bard/share/edccad9a6de7