I've seen in multiple places that preset 6 is the max you should use for VOD.
I'd be curious to see a comparison of slow, slower, and veryslow x264 vs preset 7 and 8 in svt-av1.
I feel like at HD (maybe even FHD) and lower x264 might be able to match or exceed quality at bitrate while being way faster.
I haven't tried encoding 4k yet tho so I dunno if I could manage preset 5 or 6 at that resolution even though 4k is where they could really benefit from lower presets.
> I'd be curious to see a comparison of slow, slower, and veryslow x264 vs preset 7 and 8 in svt-av1.
i was going to do this but with Arc encoding instead of svt but ffmpeg won't talk to my gpu and the people over at handbrake.fr introduced a new feature where if you try to encode at a specific bit-rate using an Arc GPU the program crashes (even with other GPU encoders) and they also changed the constant quality slider to range from "i can't tell the difference between this and the source file" through "why the fuck is my video file 50 GB"
we truly live in a society and this is what i get for updating an Ubuntu LTS based distro with an Arc GPU.