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Any reliable group making AV1 releases consistently? (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So...yeah. Looking at file size, it clearly beats older 264 or even 265. I don't mind if my server is going to have to transcode for most clients, I think the size difference in size might be worth it. But not sure which groups I could focus to look for these AV1 releases, seem they're quite scarce still?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Nothing. It’s just that you don’t see people use flac very often as an audio codec for movies or TV series. At least I haven’t seen it very often.

The only issue would be if you were trying to transcode Dolby Digital to flac. That is not a transcode you want to do.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That is not a transcode you want to do.

Why is that?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Dolby Digital (e-ac & e-ac3) are lossy codecs. So transcoding a lossy codec to a lossless codec, is not a good idea.

You can read more about it here: https://interviewfor.red/en/transcodes.html

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I didnt realise* that they were lossy. Makes sense now.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Lossy to lossless is fine it's just a waste of space.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

It’s extra wasted space because compression artifacts are hard to compress lossless. It’s a shit sandwich, so people advise against it.