I understood it as compression is 25% better : a quality of 10mbps in av1 can be achieved with 8mbps in Av2.
But, it needs 5 times more compute power for this 25% gain.
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reply> I'm not sure what these two lines mean or if we can compare them, any help?
replyAV2 saves 25% bandwidth at the cost of 5x more decoding complexity.
What does "complexity" mean here? Computation required?
replydav1d is the av1 decoder and it’s an insane feat of engineering. Written in assembly, it even eschews the normal c calling convention to get even better performance.
replyThe normal C calling convention is really only for cross-binary calls (e.g. between shared libraries). If you're not doing that you can ignore it; it's not a weird thing to do. It would be odd to strictly follow it in assembly and I assume compilers don't either.
replyYes, much higher computation required to encode it, and decode it, both.
replyHe only mentioned decode complexity. Would be interesting to know the average encode complexity compared to AV1.
replyYes
replySmaller files but harder to decode
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