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Old 30th May 2019, 11:32   #1690  |  Link
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Originally Posted by nevcairiel View Post
Encoders are no longer being made for this crowd. The primary design goal is massive-scale cloud encoding for YouTube, Netflix, Amazon, and everyone else that fits the encode-once, download hundreds of thousands of times scenario.

In such a scenario, even the slowest encoder is acceptable if it saves enough bytes.

In that scenario, VP9 also didn't fail. It gets used for a lot of content on the web.
This is what I was talking about.

AV1 is not a codec for masses. It's a very special codec for content delivery. That's it. And that makes it and its discussion kinda worthless.

And VVC is already miles better/faster/more effective than AV1.
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