What do you think about having a AV1 only tracker?
What do you think about having a AV1 only tracker?
Hi folks, recently I've been contemplating the idea of an AV1-only tracker. Just out of curiosity, do you think you'd find use in something like this? Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.
Would be pretty cool.
I've dowoaded a few av1 things now and the file sizes are game changing for me
I would use it much like I've converted my collection to h265 when that became prevalent. The only thing barring me is that Plex doesn't work with AV1 yet as far as I know, otherwise I would be working on shrinking my library size already.
Why doesn't Plex support AV1 yet? Isn't it just using ffmpeg?
Different versions of the client have different supports for different codecs. They're usually fine with h264 and h265 but newer (av1) and older (avi/divx) are supported sporadically. I know the Android client only does up to h265 on Amazon devices and that's generally what my family is using to access the library. I try to avoid transcoding as much as possible. It's not worth it to have a tiny file size if you're just going to be needing to reprocess it to be viewed on most of your clients. The desktop client typically has the widest range of available codecs but I don't know if it works with AV1 yet.
Man I’ve been out of the loop bc I didn’t even know about this until this post.
I would 100% be on board, I could even do some encoding again like the good ole days lol.
If something newer and even better came out the tracker could always pivot and adapt. Basically could be the “early adopter” movie tracker, which I’m all about.
Yeah I'd be down for that. It's a specific niche that I don't think exists yet. Would need to have some QC on the encodes coming out though, or it could become ugly pretty quick.
those curious can check out dav1nci's encodes on 1337x.to
Yea honestly, could be the bitrate but to me they don't look as good as most of the x264/x265 encodes. Also searched through HDBits forum and seems like they also have qualms about the quality, but aren't sure if its do the format itself or just the early stage of the available encoders and lack of options.
Still, the size alone is still a big plus and I'm sure many people would still be interested even with a degrade in quality, and I'm sure it will only get better with time.