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this post was submitted on 23 Mar 2024
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AV1 for video. Just running my video files through it gets the same quality at 1/10th the size. Thought I was having a stroke.
Cool. How much time does it take for encoding?
Which container do you generally prefer? mp4 or webm? Is there any remarkable benefit in choosing one over the other?
It depends if you have modern enough hardware to contain an AV1 hardware encoder (pretty much just current enthusiast stuff).
AV1 typically ends up in an MKV or WebM container (btw WebM is just a kind of MKV with less features intended for web use).
1/10??? I need to look into this ASAP!
Ratios that extreme would probably only be seen in cases where the source video was really poorly compressed anyway, which is what the commenter probably experienced. I've had that happen before too. Expect more like half the size compared to H264, which is still pretty good
Some examples of poor compression: cameras, dashcams, security cameras, basically anything that just dumps an image into a stream.
Alright. Thank you!