Subject: Re: [bug#66460] [PATCH] gnu: ffmpeg: add svt-av1 support

From: Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2023 11:26:09 -0400

Hi,

Bruno Victal <[email-masked]> writes:

> Hi Andy,
>
> Does svt-av1 imply the use of AVX2?
> Maxim has observed some breakage in [1] with the use of svt-hevc.

It seems not an issue, reading
<https://gitlab.com/AOMediaCodec/SVT-AV1/-/merge_requests/1917/diffs>.
If there's no AVX2 support, SSE2 will be used, which will be slower but
backward compatible with all x86_64 CPUs made after the year 2000 :-).

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Thanks,
Maxim