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minus-squareZephyrXerolinkEnglish32•8 months agoThis is great news. Being able to tap into hardware acceleration for AV1 will be crucial to it taking off. And all 3 of the major GPU vendors have support now.
minus-squareEager EaglelinkEnglish17•edit-28 months agoit’s a shame nvidia only supports encoding on 40 series cards - I wonder if it needs specialized hardware or if it’s an artificial limitation
minus-square@DarthjaffacakelinkEnglish2•8 months agoDamn that’s terrible, I was gonna borrow my mate’s card to do some encoding but now I guess that won’t work.
minus-square@DarthjaffacakelinkEnglish1•8 months agoI meant my friend has a 30 series card, I should’ve been more clear on that.
This is great news. Being able to tap into hardware acceleration for AV1 will be crucial to it taking off. And all 3 of the major GPU vendors have support now.
it’s a shame nvidia only supports encoding on 40 series cards - I wonder if it needs specialized hardware or if it’s an artificial limitation
Whaat? That’s crazy. I didn’t realize that
Damn that’s terrible, I was gonna borrow my mate’s card to do some encoding but now I guess that won’t work.
But he said it does exactly what you need?
I meant my friend has a 30 series card, I should’ve been more clear on that.