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Improving performance of rav1d video decoder

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305 points todsacerdoti | 2 comments | 22 May 25 11:59 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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IgorPartola ◴[22 May 25 13:34 UTC] No.44061907[source]▶
AV1 is an amazing codec. I really hope it replaces proprietary codecs like h264 and h265. It has a similar, if not better, performance to h265 while being completely free. Currently on an Intel-based Macbook it is only supported in some browsers, however it seems that newer video cards from AMD, Nvidia, and Intel do include hardware decoders.
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karn97 ◴[22 May 25 13:55 UTC] No.44062089[source]▶
9070xt records gameplay by default in av1
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monster_truck ◴[22 May 25 14:43 UTC] No.44062596[source]▶
RDNA3 cards also have AV1 encode. RDNA 2 only has decode.

With the bitrate set to 100MB/s it happily encodes 2160p or even 3240p, the maximum resolution available when using Virtual Super Resolution (which renders at >native res and downsamples, is awesome for titles without resolution scaling when you don't want to use TAA)

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kennyadam ◴[22 May 25 16:32 UTC] No.44063678[source]▶
Isn't that expected? 4K Blurays only encode up to like 128Mbps, which is 16MB/s. 100MB/s seems like complete overkill.
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vlovich123 ◴[22 May 25 16:56 UTC] No.44063998{3}[source]▶
I think op just didn’t type Mbps properly. 100MB/s or ~800Mbps is way higher than the GPU can even encode at a HW level even I would think
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1. monster_truck ◴[23 May 25 16:05 UTC] No.44074043{4}[source]▶
100,000kbps. It will more than double that for 3240p.

https://i.imgur.com/LyrhNXZ.png

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2. vlovich123 ◴[24 May 25 04:45 UTC] No.44078841[source]▶
Right. That’s 223642 kilobits/s (kbps) in your picture or ~200MBit/s whereas you wrote (intentionally or otherwise) 200Mbyte/s a nearly 10 fold difference (100Mbit/s =~ 12Mbyte/s). 100MByte/s is 800Mbit/s or ~800000 kbps which is an order of magnitude more insanity than already choosing 100Mbit/s for live streaming (and not physically possible on consumer GPUs I believe).