It’s obviously not the end of the world, it’s just something I expect from a premium product targeted at video editing in 2023/24. Well, for editing it’s not mandatory, but say you’d want to livestream something (there’s more than streaming games, remember), you’d be stuck with H.264 on most streaming platforms - now, or in the future.
In the “PC world”, AV1 encoding is quickly becoming the norm and all current dGPUs of all three manufacturers (Nvidia, AMD and Intel) support it. $200 Intel GPUs support the feature.
As a consumer or professional I couldn’t care less why Apple didn’t implement AV1 encoding (yet). Fact is, it’s not there, and if it’s required for my use case, that makes the M3 lineup a bad choice. A trillion dollar company should be able to figure out their patent issues on their own.
While it’s true they enabled VP9 hardware decoding via software updates, an encoder is a bit of a different beast.
It’s simply a negative point, that’s all I’m saying.
It’s obviously not the end of the world, it’s just something I expect from a premium product targeted at video editing in 2023/24. Well, for editing it’s not mandatory, but say you’d want to livestream something (there’s more than streaming games, remember), you’d be stuck with H.264 on most streaming platforms - now, or in the future.
In the “PC world”, AV1 encoding is quickly becoming the norm and all current dGPUs of all three manufacturers (Nvidia, AMD and Intel) support it. $200 Intel GPUs support the feature.
As a consumer or professional I couldn’t care less why Apple didn’t implement AV1 encoding (yet). Fact is, it’s not there, and if it’s required for my use case, that makes the M3 lineup a bad choice. A trillion dollar company should be able to figure out their patent issues on their own.
While it’s true they enabled VP9 hardware decoding via software updates, an encoder is a bit of a different beast.
It’s simply a negative point, that’s all I’m saying.