Discord, a social platform that supports texting, voice and video calls, now supports hardware-accelerated AV1 video streaming for Nvidia’s GeForce 40 series graphics boards, one of the best graphics cards you can buy today. is enabled. It is the first communications platform to support hardware acceleration of both AV1 encoding and decoding using the Ada Lovelace microarchitecture.
“Discord is now rolling out an update to enable AV1 streaming on GeForce RTX 40 series GPUs.” murmured Gerardo Delgado, Product Line Manager for Content Creators at Nvidia said: “The update will roll out starting this week and will gradually roll out to all users. With AV1 you can stream up to 4K60 on Nitro at 8 Mbps on him!”
The AV1 codec significantly reduces the bandwidth required for high definition, high frame rate video. By adding support for AV1 encoding in just one family of GPUs, Discord is helping reduce the upload bandwidth required for high-quality video streams for content creators and for viewers with hardware that supports AV1 decoding. Reduce download bandwidth requirements. If you’re using a graphics processor that doesn’t support AV1 decoding, the service will transcode your video into ubiquitous formats such as H.264.
Several video streaming services such as Netflix and YouTube now stream AV1 videos to hardware that supports AV1 decoding. Discord, on the other hand, is currently the only communication platform that supports AV1 decoding and encoding. This may not come as a surprise, as Discord is primarily aimed at gamers, and this audience tends to own the latest and greatest hardware.
Speaking of hardware, it should be noted that all modern GPUs from AMD, Intel and Nvidia support AV1 encoding and decoding. Therefore, Discord, and eventually other communication software, may support hardware-accelerated AV1 encoding and decoding using other GPUs.
