• paraphrand@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I thought fixed hardware encoders were always lower in quality than software ones anyway. That’s my experience with h.264 in multiple contexts.

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      8 months ago

      While this is true, AV1 software encoding is so terribly slow that it’s completely impractical for anything remotely resembling live-streaming.