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>hevc and svt-av1 are still pretty slow. they have a lot more filters to work with so trialing the combinations of filters is quite onerous.

Yeah but svt-av1 is pretty decent now. It actually seems faster than x265

>i think it will remain this way until neural heuristics become a commonplace thing. there was one paper about a chinese codec (i forgar the paper) where they did this and it does work fine.

More than likely software encoding will never be fast again. X264 was kind of a fluke that happened at just the right time. The future will be ASICs, FPGAs, and likely a NPUs for AI assisted hardware encoding.

>basically using the slow encoders to brute force reference material and then training neural networks to predict filter chains directly, it does make these things a lot more performant.

I'm more interested in a fully AI video encoding/decoding model. Hard to say if it'd be practical over AI assisted ASIC but if you were to give an AI access to an FPGA with the task of encoding the video quickly and efficiently things could get very interesting.