[Cin] Prepping HW upgrade options for AV1 de-/encoding

[Terje J. Hanssen]

Den 03.12.2023 22:41, skrev Stefan de Konink via Cin:
> On Sunday, December 3, 2023 10:29:30 PM CET, Terje J. Hanssen via Cin 
> wrote:
>> 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?
>
> Is this a question with 'can I playback an AV-1 encoded movie' or 'can 
> I edit AV-1 encoded material'? I really would wonder which camera 
> would prefer encoding in AV-1.
>

IMO AV1 transcoding from other formats, intermediate or uncompressed, 
and for AV1 playback yes. The increasing interest in the 5 years newer 
AV1 vs HEVC is royalty free, some higher compression at the same or 
better quality for video streaming or file download.  (AV1 decoding is 
to be supported on high end smartphones).