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Anon gives a piracy history lesson (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 day ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

To someone not knowing anything, how big a deal is the difference?

[–] CoopaLoopa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Super oversimplified, but take an imaginary 1GB video file and it will compress roughly to the size below with minimal visual degradation.

H.264 -> H.265 -> AV1

1GB -> 600MB -> 350MB

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks!

Is it (more) cpu expensive to decode the AV1?

[–] CoopaLoopa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 hours ago

Yes. If you don't have hardware that supports AV1 decode, it gets sent to the CPU instead.

For homelab stuff, the responsibility falls on the server to transcode the media to whichever format the client device requests. That usually means being able to have ~2 simultaneous AV1 streams and maxing out the CPU.

With hardware decode, you could have 10+ streams.