Already touched this topic barely in another thread
https://lists.cinelerra-gg.org/pipermail/cin/2023-December/007346.html
But so many SW and HW pieces are mentioned around, it is almost a
full-time reading and study:
VAAPI, MESA, VULKAN, Intel Quick Sync Video etc......
I realize my aging hardware which is fast enough for other tasks,
needs some "AV1 upgrade", if possible.
But first I wonder, what is expected possible to do (obtain) with
AV1 de-/encoding on my existing 64bit hardware:
1) laptop 2018: Dell XPS 13-9370:
quad core i7-8550U CPU (8. gen Kabylake) and Intel UHD Graphics
2) WS infinity: MSI Z170A mobo: quad core
i7-6700K CPU (6. gen Skylake), NVIDIA GeForce GT-730 graphics
A budget friendly first "AV1 HW upgrade" of the workstation 2) if
possible, would be to add a new GPU as Intel Arc A380.
But the question is if this will work at all on that much older
(2015) Skylake platform with i7-6700K CPU?
I've seen CPU bottlenecks has been mentioned and that Arc A380 is
targeted at newer generations CPU ...