AV1 is a difficult reach for everyone. Not ready for prime time without majority devices having AV1 decode available.
The encoder is needed specifically for
broadcasting. The decoder is needed for
efficient playback. What does that mean?
It's a two way street. My RX580 isn't AV1 decode capable but if I
update LAV Filters, I can have AV1 playback just fine.
Now there's an experiment:
Code:
YT-DLP.EXE https://www.youtube.com/shorts/o0q0OfeaFX4 -F
Don't mind me, just running YT-DLP and FFMPEG kit directly from the default admin user dir like a psycho...
Lets mux some kind of AV1 content. #234 m3u8 audio playlist roulette and #398 720p mp4 in AV1 rather than AVC/VP9.
Code:
YT-DLP.EXE https://www.youtube.com/shorts/o0q0OfeaFX4 -f 234+398
Very cool. MPlayer Classic 1.7.8.162 has no playback issues.
CPU might struggle a bit though. Oh it's chuggin...
A whole 3%. Had to wait a bit for this outrageous peak to appear.
It blips the GPU a bit too but is there any
GPU hardware specific decode happening here? Nope, all 3D.
If I play this clip
directly from YT I get something a little unusual:
YT is sending AV1 content in a 360p mp4 with the default opus audio package (396+251).
I'm able to see this because
the browser supports it. So what happens when AV1 is
livestreamed? I have no idea.
Will it make my RX580 chug? Probably not. Will my R5 3600 go full jet engine? It's possible in a transition period.
There may very well be a situation where it gets dumped to THE worst renderer and hammers the CPU this badly:
That's just pinning the speed up command but many CPUs struggled this bad on 1080p H.264 when 480p was the norm.
AV1 is the type of encode candidate to clean up ALL the major streaming quality issues and make 2K/4K streaming optional.
I'm not a 4K gamer and don't play anything at 4K. I can do that from an HMD, just not desktop. That future may be very soon™.
Those on the latest consumer builds of 10, and any build of 11, would have no issue assigning things to their integrated GPU.
This is another point that's too easy to overlook. I
just got everything back by jumping ship for build 191206-1406.
Will another superfluous bullshit string of Windows updates take out everything on this desktop next TUE? Likely.
I don't
ever want to be at a point where I have to decide between Win10 and Win11 for gaming vs streaming.
We already can't have nice things as gamers, developers or content creators without shutting off an obscene amount of updates.
Is it any wonder Valve took the prerogative of funneling gamers into the emergency exit solution marked LINUX?
The Steam Deck was the opening of the magical gate that made everyone notice. The 9070XT is a shiny new vehicle to get us there.
So what are the 9070 and 9060? Stripped down silicon? Are these missing encoders and mission critical technologies like the RX6400?
If it has all the goodies that have me looking at old enterprise junk nvidia cards and Intel A series, it will be a watershed moment.
This is AMDs chance to instantly knock the status quo on its ass and I am so here for it. This could be the ticket to BIG freedom.
