DEEP-DIVE: INTEL ARC’S AV1 VIDEO ENCODING IS THE FUTURE OF GPU STREAMING.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- TAYLOR, ADAM
- Source
- PCWorld; Sep2022, Vol. 40 Issue 9, p70-81, 12p, 12 Color Photographs
- Subject
- Streaming video & television
Encoding
Videos
- Language
- ISSN
- 07378939
That world is the future promised by AV1: A new, open source video codec that aims to dethrone H.264 as the primary video standard after its nearly 20 year-long reign. DEEP-DIVE: INTEL ARC'S AV1 VIDEO ENCODING IS THE FUTURE OF GPU STREAMING YouTube also created this "AV1 Beta Launch Playlist (fave.co/3A0rXi9)" back in 2018 with some sample videos that were originally given AV1 copies for some guaranteed testing. I put Intel's GPU encoder to the test using a custom Gunnir Arc A380 desktop card to see if it delivers the promises we've seen from AV1 thus far, and how it competes against the existing H.264 encoders typically used for live streaming. [Extracted from the article]