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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

AV1? that's a codec, right? I see in the preferences section for Piped. Is better than AVC (h.2640)?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's also better than H.265/HEVC. Plus, it's open-source and royalty free.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Better quality per file size than HEVC? cite?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was curious, so I looked it up. AV1 is more efficient than HEVC by like 28%! On the downside, encoding is horrifically slooow. It'll be interesting to see how much hardware support AV1 gets in the coming years, because encoding time will have a dramatic effect on its adoption rate.

Interesting to note: AV1 can be played in Kodi, Plex, Emby, Jellyfin, VLC, Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Opera. So on the software side, it's pretty widely supported.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

As long as your cpu/gpu can handle it

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes, AV1 is the next big deal. You can compress the hell out of the video and it still looks near original. I've re-encode some of my locally ripped movies for fun to see how it looks and it's really impressive.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder if it's possible to re-encode from H.265/HEVC to AV1

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can play in handbrake with AV1 encoding to see how it goes. I think I set the compression to 36 or something.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks I will give it a shot and see how it goes. The biggest thing holding me back is older hardware like the Nvidia Shield for example not supporting AV1.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ahh, yeah that could be an issue. It takes my laptop like 11 hours to encode one of the Lord of the Rings Blu-ray. I also change the audio to eAC3 while I'm in there for better client support.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you tell me more about reencoding to save space?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

If you reencode to a more efficient codec, you can save ridiculous amounts of space. If you're interested in reencoding and are willing to play with self hosting, look into Tdarr, it's an app that can reencode your whole library. Been using it for a while after switching from my personal solution has been wonderful. I just put files into my media directories and it picks it up, reencodes the file and replaces the original if everything checks out.