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Since the release of the GeForce RTX 4000 on one side and the Radeon RX 7000 on the other, NVIDIA like AMD has not lost an opportunity to remind us of the benefits of AV1 encoding.
Although very interesting on paper, the functionality was slow to become easy to access for ordinary people. But with support from one of the most popular video encoding software, the lines are moving.
The AV1 to supplant the H265?
Almost a year ago, Handbrake went to version 1.6.0, whether on Linux, macOS or Windows. A change of version whose scope was major, because it opened the way to the AV1.
For the authors of Handbrake, it was a question of following the movement and offering support worthy of the name to this announced successor to VP9. For many specialists, AV1 is the most promising alternative to the H265 (HEVC) codec, which is today the star for all video content.
More modern and capable of much more beautiful things with smaller file sizes, the AV1 has everything it takes to undermine this domination, but if it requires a little more hardware resources for decoding, it is much more AV1 encoding which is painful.
AMD and NVIDIA: no jealousy
Whether it is NVIDIA, from September 2022, or AMD a few weeks later, the main GPU players have therefore set out to offer hardware encoding solutions with their new graphics cards.
The release of version 1.7.0 of Handbrake should considerably expand the user base of these hardware encoders since, as the authors of the software point out, the “ Support for AMD VCN AV1 and NVIDIA NVENC AV1 encoders “. In fact, it is very simple to take advantage of the power of the most modern GPUs to encode in AV1.
Support for these hardware solutions should logically reduce encoding time for many users and allow much greater use of the AV1 codec which is already widely used whether on Netflix or YouTube.
In the journey of a gamer or creator, the choice of a graphics card is not one that should be taken lightly. An essential component of a machine designed for gaming or production, the graphics card plays an increasingly important role. Let’s try to guide your choices during this period when all models are quite easily found.
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Source : Handbrake
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