I’ve always thought gpu/hardware accelerated encoding was the same thing and worse than software encoding quality wise but way way faster. Does that mean the gpu can software encode with vulkan support?
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I think including the word "OpenAI" in the post name is somewhat a misnomer that implies an encrapification not really happening to the FFMPEG project.
Yes, it is true OpenAI originally developed the Whisper model, and I hate OpenAI; however:
- Whisper is actually open source, unlike most OpenAI crap.
- FFmpeg isn't even directly using the OpenAI version, written in Python - they're using a port to C++ called Whisper.cpp
- We've been able to use speech recognition for decades, so unlike other AI models, I don't think a speech recognition model that does it better is problem.
- You don't even necessarily have to compile FFmpeg with Whisper support.
I get the dislike of AI, but the idea of association with OpenAI is overblown and not really reflective of reality. Now I can get not wanting to use open source projects whose developers don't reflect your principles; however, I think this ethical issue is more indirect than may initially appear and is not a strong reason to quit using what is still the most effective media conversion tool.
Hopefully the speech recognition is better than whatever the fuck most online video platforms use for automatic subtitles at the moment.
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has anyone compared vulkan av1 to nvenc or vaapi? too new still?
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ugh so what's the alternative package to ffmpeg?
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Whisper is what I think is one of the best uses for machine learning.
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oh shit i wonder if this will enable vp9 usage on old igpus
Awesome news!
Any fancy data and graphs to show how it compares with other av1 encoders?
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