ZandarKoad wrote on Oct 1, 2023, 23:14:That's exactly the issue, AV1 is great but the demanding encodes have meant a slow rollout as specialized hardware edged in and general purpose tech moved forward (only the latest nV/AMD hardware has encode support). This is a step beyond that but if it's going to take a day to encode without specialized gear, it's wasted.
Not a word is mentioned of how much processing power is required to compress or decompress media for sending/playback. File sizes are absolutely not the only consideration at play here. This is a nothing burger without those details.