SVT-AV1 VS nvidia-vaapi-driver

Compare SVT-AV1 vs nvidia-vaapi-driver and see what are their differences.

SVT-AV1

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nvidia-vaapi-driver

A VA-API implemention using NVIDIA's NVDEC (by elFarto)
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SVT-AV1 nvidia-vaapi-driver
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1,320 1,104
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9.3 7.8
about 3 years ago 2 months ago
C C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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SVT-AV1

Posts with mentions or reviews of SVT-AV1. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-03.

nvidia-vaapi-driver

Posts with mentions or reviews of nvidia-vaapi-driver. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-21.
  • nvidia-vaapi-driver question for the System76 team
    1 project | /r/pop_os | 23 Nov 2023
    For anyone wondering, I got hardware acceleration working (NVIDIA 1660 Super: h264, vp8, vp9, don't know why I can't get HEVC support currently) using the nvidia-driver-545 using the steps from nvidia-vaapi-driver to build from source (version: 0.0.11)
  • nvidia-vaapi-driver v0.0.11 released
    1 project | /r/linux | 9 Nov 2023
  • Windows 11 has made the “clean Windows install” an oxymoron
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Aug 2023
    I don't think it's your fault and I don't think you're using the wrong browser.

    > I should be working out the dependency story and compiling some driver from Github myself.

    no, nvidia _should_ make it easier for people using the 3rd most popular desktop OS to use their hardware. It would make them more competitive against AMD and Intel, which both support hardware video decoding.

    That's probably not going to happen, so the next best option is to install a package from the package manager [0]. There might be some kind of compilation needed, but in my experience that's rarely an issue (aside from time), especially if it's coming out of the package manager for a popular distribution.

    > It's just not a real option for maybe 99% of PC users.

    well, 99% of PC users with Nvidia hardware. It's an important distinction since this problem is specific to Nvidia. If the solution is to installing a package from the package manager, it's only as difficult as installing the browser in the first place.

    I do agree there's some extra questions that may make things difficult, or unfamiliar for the vast majority of people, though. Like how is someone supposed to know they need the nvidia-vaapi-driver package anyway?

    [0] - https://github.com/elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver#package-manag...

  • Ubuntu is slower than windows and it is really hard to use hardware acceleration
    4 projects | /r/Ubuntu | 30 Jun 2023
    to be honest, pop os solved most of my problems except the hardware acceleration problem which seems like an issue with Nvidia. I am planning to try this soon. https://github.com/elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver/ as mentioned in the comments
  • Harwdware decoding is broken with latest Nvidia proprietary drivers (v535)
    1 project | /r/Fedora | 26 Jun 2023
    RpmFusion only has v0.0.9 of nvidia-vaapi-driver although release v0.0.10 adds support for Nvidia drivers v535. https://github.com/elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver/releases/tag/v0.0.10
  • Youtube dropping frames on Bullseye.
    1 project | /r/debian | 28 May 2023
  • DEAR UBUNTU…
    5 projects | /r/linux | 28 May 2023
    I do have one machine with the Firefox PPA rather than the snap, and that's because I've got an NVIDIA card in it and want to use an experimental library.
  • Video playback lagging in everything but VLC
    1 project | /r/linux_gaming | 5 May 2023
    Note that as an nvidia gpu owner you need to do some extra backflips to make firefox use hardware decoding such as installing a custom vaapi-to-nvdec translation driver: https://github.com/elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver
  • Friend: What do I need to know if I want to try Linux? Me:
    2 projects | /r/linuxmasterrace | 21 Apr 2023
    General VDPAU vs VA-API video acceleration pains. Needing a community driver for imperfect VA-API support, that nvidia updates have broken multiple times.
  • Gnome Web 44: leaps and bounds
    4 projects | /r/gnome | 12 Mar 2023
    Don't use VDPAU, this driver is much better: https://github.com/elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver

What are some alternatives?

When comparing SVT-AV1 and nvidia-vaapi-driver you can also consider the following projects:

obs-amd-encoder - AMD Advanced Media Framework Encoder Plugin for Open Broadcaster Studio

vdpau-va-driver-vp9 - Experimental VP9 codec support for vdpau-va-driver (NVIDIA VDPAU-VAAPI wrapper) and chromium-vaapi

rav1e - The fastest and safest AV1 encoder.

OpenH264 - Open Source H.264 Codec

waifu2x - Image Super-Resolution for Anime-Style Art

vdpau-va-driver-vp9 - Experimental VP9 codec support for vdpau-va-driver (NVIDIA VDPAU-VAAPI wrapper) and chromium-vaapi

SVT-HEVC - SVT HEVC encoder. Scalable Video Technology (SVT) is a software-based video coding technology that is highly optimized for Intel® Xeon® processors. Using the open source SVT-HEVC encoder, it is possible to spread video encoding processing across multiple Intel® Xeon® processors to achieve a real advantage of processing efficiency.

nvtop - GPU & Accelerator process monitoring for AMD, Apple, Huawei, Intel, NVIDIA and Qualcomm

community - libaom User Wiki

kvazaar - An open-source HEVC encoder

waifu2x-ncnn-vulkan - waifu2x converter ncnn version, runs fast on intel / amd / nvidia / apple-silicon GPU with vulkan