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[–] Rekall_Incorporated@piefed.social [S] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Unfortunately AV1 encodes simply take too long for me at the 1/2 preset (equivalent to very slow) with a 8c/16t CPU.

I will probably give it another go on my next build (was planning an update to Zen6, but considering the price situation, I will have to wait another 2-3 years). And honestly my 5800X/3080 system is doing fine.

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[–] vividspecter@aussie.zone 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

There are multiple AV1 encoders. SVT-AV1 was at least as fast as HEVC for the same quality/bitrate last time I tried.

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[–] Rekall_Incorporated@piefed.social [S] 1 point 10 months ago

That's the one I used albeit it was older version even when I tried it in early 2025.

I always use the lowest "quality preset" (e.g. "slow", "VerySlow" in x264/x265). The equivalent present in SVT-AV1 will was a number value (I believe 0 = placebo in x265/x264, I went 1/2).

Unless there have been massive improvements in SVT-AV1 in the last 12 months, you most likely get much longer encode time if you go with lowest quality preset equivalent in SVT-AV1.

Maybe I am missing something? Genuinely curious as I don't have much experience with SVT-AV1 (I've done several hundreds of encodes of different levels of complexity with Xvid, x264, x265 over the past ~20 years).