So far the pirate scene doesn't seem to be using it at all.
Pirates, quite understandably, don't care about patents or IP. They can be a good indicator of whether there is any other reason to use AV1 over H.265.
Pirates, quite understandably, don't care about patents or IP. They can be a good indicator of whether there is any other reason to use AV1 over H.265.
There's development happening here: https://aomedia.googlesource.com/aom/+log/refs/heads/master/...
Maybe not. There are still normative (i.e. changes affecting the spec) cases in the bug tracker:
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/aomedia/issues/list?q=label:Hotl...
Private torrent communities are already reluctant to use x265 which provides marginal gains compared to x264 at a great increase in encoding time.
A part of the process in pirate movie encoding (p2p, not really scene) is testing optimal encoder parameters (adaptive quantization strength, psychovisual rate-distortion, quantizer curve compression etc) on short clips meant to be representative of the whole movie (e.g. 60 frames every 4000 frames). If encoding a single test clip takes an hour as with x265 that sure puts a damper on things.
About the only place in movie torrent communities where x265 makes sense is 4K encodes as x265 can retain HDR metadata (h264 can too to an extent with the 2017 revision to T-REC H264 but it's hardly supported anywhere).
This may be different for pirate _streaming_ services.
This is easily explained by 1) no hardware acceleration, and 2) the reference implementation is currently intended for clarity and ease of changing, not efficiency or speed. After the bitstream solidifies, both problems will be solved.
> Private torrent communities are already reluctant to use x265 which provides marginal gains compared to x264 at a great increase in encoding time
Because there would be a clear quality loss. The websites they're ripping from (amazon, netflix, whatever) are using H.264, and to recode into H.265 would lose significant quality.
This is wrong for two reasons: the source codec doesn't matter (it gets decoded to raw yuv420 first anyway), and netflix/amazon/UHD BluRays already use HEVC for 4K which I alluded to earlier.