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If you want to know a bit more about what is important in this major release, you can watch my presentation about FFmpeg 6.0 at Fosdem:

https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/om_vlc/ (Video + Slides)

It’s a bit less dry than the changelog, notably for the evolutions of the APIs.

What’s also important is the changes about the release schedule that we’ve been pushing with the community. Major version every year at the beginning of the year, with ABI and API break, minor releases during the year and an LTS every other year…

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A bit off topic, but in your talk you said that intel, nvidia and amd encoder are worse than svt-av1. How much worse and which card is the best? Always encoding with ab-av1/av1an using svt-av1, but with the "right" preset it's still really slow. Which hardware encoder (in your opinion/experience) is the best to use (size/quality speed doesn't matter as much). If I want to convert my media server to av1 only should I stick with svt-av1 and eat the power/time-cost?

What is the the "right" preset? SVT-AV1 has a wide range of presets, from being about as fast as x264 veryfast onwards. And for any given speed level it should provide significantly lower bitrates at the same quality than x264, x265 or libvpx.

For example if you pick speed 6 on SVT-AV1 it should take about as much time as x264 veryslow while still being 30-40% lower bitrate at the same quality.

Have you tried the faster presets of SVT-AV1?

I dont have a card to test, but the last VMAF bench I saw shows hardware AV1 is slightly better than veryslow x264.

Which is way better than hardware h.264... but also terrible compared to svt-av1, lol.

Try using av1an to parallelize (and improve the quality of) your encode. And TBH you should not re encode your library unless it has raw rips or something like that, and you are short on space.

> 200k LoC of handwritten ASM!

He's not the hero we deserve, but he's the hero we need.

I'm sure you get this a lot, but thank you so much for your sacrifice!

Thank you for doing this talk. I agree with you, news about ffmpeg progress should be more widespread. And by the way, I love your hat!

nice talk, thanks! I guess for once You finally "did" make it with FFmpeg to the front page of HN ;-)

Thanks for watching the talk :)

At 2m15s you even mention HN. :)

This is very nice. I've been surprised how many people don't know HN, it can definitely use some promotion.

Be careful what you wish for!

Eternal March here we come

I’m old enough to remember when that was coined.

I'm old enough to remember it. And young enough to have been one of those eternal Septemberers. =)

me too!

I'm getting a bit older and my memory might not serve me very well, but it used to be Eternal September, right?

Yes, your recall matches mine.

Also, try the page

jargon/html/S/September-that-never-ended.html

on www.catb.org.

yeah but HN version is going to happen on March...at least that was the point of my joke

Why would it be March for HN? End of the Japanese fiscal year?

Just because it's about to be March right now, I think was the intention there.

I wouldn't be too worried. I was a lurker for a long time before joining but it seems like there's an annual, if not bi-annual, flood from reddit or other sites that gets shut down because low effort comments and F-tier jokes/memes/puns get no engagement, removed, or downvoted to oblivion.

You're sweet, and we appreciate being a known secret, but I hardly worry about swathes of ffmpeg 6.0 nerds joining the community. Indeed they might be a welcome addition.

no ty!

Rule 1 of Fight Club

Well, it does sometimes feel that way, a fight club.

Rule 2 as well.

Please, no!

We'd need way more dangs than are available.

From the Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang, paperback edition from 2010 on page 65

"Dang: Expressing annoyance or antipathy, or as an intensive" ;)

git log is no changelog...

Gracias!

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