Are we quantifying the fidelity of AV1 right?
https://lemmy.world/post/11409400
Are we quantifying the fidelity of AV1 right? - Lemmy.World
I’ve have been pondering about it for some time now and there is a reason for
it. When I compare my animated encodes frame by frame, I see that some frames
come out with blurry mess but others come out better than HEVC at equivalent
quality. So am I supposed to compare not still frames but frames in motion to
quantify the fidelity in AV1? Or is that an area where the encoder still need
improvements? I’ve also experimented with temporal filtering on and off,
sometimes it looks better, other times it butchers the fidelity.
My experience of using AV1 so far.
https://lemmy.world/post/3270838
My experience of using AV1 so far. - Lemmy.world
I’ve been experimenting with AV1 using FFmpeg with SVT-AV1 for 2 years. I’ve
encoded quite a lot of my videos in AV1 by now, mostly just animated content.
AV1 is really good for an open source project, no doubt about that. But after so
long using it, I can safely say that it is really just good for storage saving
with excellent quality-speed tradeoff, however, it lacks fidelity. My major
discontent with AV1 has been how the encoder blurs out some details completely
out even when setting crf as low as 14 whereas HEVC didn’t at all. At first, I
thought AV1 is only better for animated videos but later I found its really just
any video so I’ve switched back to using HEVC for storage and decided to use AV1
only with preset 6 and fast decode on for mobile devices. I don’t mean to say
that AV1 is bad, it does provide better quality than HEVC for sure but I
wouldn’t call that an upgrade when HEVC still has the major edge in fidelity. It
makes sense for VOD services to make use of it but personally, I wouldn’t use it
for anything except quick and low bitrate encoding.
Do you miss the old Firefox UI design on Android?
https://lemmy.world/post/3142804
Do you miss the old Firefox UI design on Android? - Lemmy.world
Mozilla redesigned the browser 4 years ago. At that time, I was expecting this
change for the best, making Firefox more advanced than Chrome and more intuitive
while still retaining the simplicity of UX, is what I thought. 4 years on and I
still can’t make myself go back to FF. I miss the old simple UI. You could
choose any extension from the extension store and personally, the best part was
theming which is all gone! The browser is now all clustered. And Mozilla is
still using the old screeshots of the browser in Play Store, I wonder why.
