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BoingBoomTschakyesterday at 5:55 PM1 replyview on HN

I don't know how to say nicely that you don't realize how ignorant about the field you must seem to anyone who isn't. You'll have trouble finding such comparison for the same reason you won't find a "caterpillar vs motorbike" speed test easily. Everyone in the target market including Apple knows hardware encoding will never be about output quality.

Anyway, here, I'm feeling nice. Some guy comparing the M1 Pro's HEVC encoder vs x265 (amongst others): https://colinmckellar.com/2024/01/11/video-encoder-compariso...

Here's the only graph you need to look at if you don't want to bother (encoding time vs file size at fixed perceptual quality, log scale axes): https://colinmckellar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/VMAF_90...


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GeekyBearyesterday at 7:13 PM

"Some Guy" just doesn't cut it.

We've got five generations of Apple's Media Engine shipping in M series chips.

If things are as dire as you claim, one of the many hardware reviews in reputable publications over the years would have mentioned this unacceptable quality at some point.

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