My problem with AV1 is that so many people I talk to in real life about it think I’m mispronouncing AVI (Audio Video Interleave), the old container format that was popular in the 90s and early 2000s. I tell them it’s a video codec and they act all surprised like H.264 and H.265 are the only ones in existence.
Are you sure that’s many people? Outside of the few tech savvy people I know, most lay people have no clue what h.264/5 are either. They know mp3 and that just means digital music to them.
I don’t even use av1 for anything. 🤷
Streaming sites use them so there’s a solid chance you’ve used it plenty without actively choosing to
I don’t use it, I can’t speak to anyone else using it. If YouTube is sending it out that’s them using it. None of my files are that codec.
AV1 is one of the codecs that youtube uses. Not all videos have an AV1 version available though.
So you just don’t watch it in that case?
Yeah, totally. 🙄
AV1 is not an encoder. If you watch AV1 encoded videos, you’re using AV1.
Booo…
AV1 + OPUS for life!
What about AV2 + Opus though!?
It’s not even out yet…
“for life” covers that eventuality :P
We’ll see. I’m hoping I won’t have to replace my vast collection of AV1 encoded series as I had with H264 & H265.
No Raspi support for AV1 either. I’m stuck in patent hell HEVC land.
There’s always the CPU decoding.
My problem with AV1 is that so many people I talk to in real life about it think I’m mispronouncing AVI (Audio Video Interleave), the old container format that was popular in the 90s and early 2000s. I tell them it’s a video codec and they act all surprised like H.264 and H.265 are the only ones in existence.
Are you sure that’s many people? Outside of the few tech savvy people I know, most lay people have no clue what h.264/5 are either. They know mp3 and that just means digital music to them.
I had completely forgotten about .avi