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Originally Posted by sneaker_ger
We'll have to wait and see when or if free AV1 encoders surface that can beat e.g. x265 at not more than 10x slow down. It's hard to please the doom9 crowd. VP9 never got to that point, maybe AV1 will be the same.
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Encoders are no longer being made for this crowd. The primary design goal is massive-scale cloud encoding for YouTube, Netflix, Amazon, and everyone else that fits the encode-once, download hundreds of thousands of times scenario.
In such a scenario, even the slowest encoder is acceptable if it saves enough bytes.
In that scenario, VP9 also didn't fail. It gets used for a lot of content on the web.