• null@lemmy.org
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    19 hours ago

    I was gonna say, I like AV1, but my Plex server says otherwise.

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      16 hours ago

      I’m using a 15 year old i5 and a GTX 970, having no issues with AV1 video. Curious what hardware you’re running.

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        16 hours ago

        Neither of those things support AV1 encoding or decoding. Curious how you’ve come to believe you’re having “no issues” with a codec your hardware has no support for.

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          16 hours ago

          You don’t need HW acceleration to playback AV1. Maybe they watch most of their content at 720p and are software decoding and it’s been good enough.

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            15 hours ago

            Yeah you’re going to need HW acceleration to encode AV1 on your server “without issues”.

            Theres a world of difference between something that’s technically possible and something that will just work without issues of any kind. Something being “good enough” implies the existence of caveats. Mainly being that’d be a shitty experience lol.

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        14 hours ago

        I doubt that it’s doing real time transcoding in av1, probably just sending the file “as-is” to your client device and you’re noticing as modern networks allow real time streaming of files with that size

        My server with much newer components does like 5 fps in encoding av1

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          8 hours ago

          were you trying the default av1 encoder in ffmpeg? that one is unoptimized try libsvtav1 I get hundreds of fps, albeit on a 9800x3d

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            4 hours ago

            just the default encoder. I tried it only once and when I saw the FPS I gave up almost immediately

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      19 hours ago

      use software transcoding if thats your issue

      if plex cannot work at all with AV1, it might be time to move to a non-garbage media server like jellyfin.

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        16 hours ago

        jellyfin is the least functional of the trinity of media servers so that’s not the best recommendation here.

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            6 hours ago

            “Click button media plays” would be the bare minimum a media server does. Being able to play media at all does not elevate it above of its position at the bottom of the media player stack.