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VideoLAN Publishes Dav2d For Open-Source AV2 Decoder
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AV2 vs AV1: What the Next-Gen Video Codec Brings to the Table
Or older article but more comprehensive : AV1 vs AV2 Video Codec: 7 Key Differences You Need to Know. It's key takeaways :
Ah but split screen delivery may mean plex content on an Apple Vision Pro or something VR related right?
So AV2 in a homelab is grossly inappropriate as this seems like something more geared up for server farm status. Odds are most homelabs aren’t rocking that kinda hardware and there’s probably an energy consumption cost and hardware cost factor to measure against how much someone is really saving compared to just AV1 which a intel ARC card can handle. You’d probably have to be rocking a homelab with 100s of TB of stuff to even come close to maybe wanting to go to AV2 hardware and codec?
I think first would be wait to see how well it can be decoded/transcoded on CPUs for peoples current equipment. Won't be able to have as many concurrent streams as codecs with hardware support. AV2 hardware is probably years away. I'm certain AV2 hardware will succeed unlike VVC which had a blip of support with Intel then abandoned the next generation of Intel chips. I'll switch to AV2 once it has similar adoption to like AV1 today so like 8 years from now I guess. I'm guessing similar amount of time for hardware support to be as ubiquitous. Not sure if it should be quicker with how dead in the water VVC has been for 6 years or slower because people upgrade hardware less frequently now and honestly h.264 is still good enough and AV1 is really good enough so any rush to AV2 will mostly be hyperscalers trying to cut down on bandwidth and storage costs