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Yesterday, the team behind DAV1D released DAV1D 0.2.0, the open-source AV1 video decoder which focuses on helping older desktop CPUs and mobile devices. The initial release, Dav1d 0.1 which was released three months ago, featured hand-written AVX2 code for running faster than the reference decoder on modern Intel/AMD CPUs. Though the stable version of DAV1D 0.2.0 is yet to be released.
The SSSE3 support is aimed at scaling the performance potential for older desktop CPUs. As per the Steam Hardware Survey (Feb. 2019), 97,23% of their user base supports SSSE3.
Dav1d 0.1.0 didn’t support older and lower-end processors but this release comes with support for processors not supporting AVX2. Also, there is NEON SIMD support now for ARM hardware. The performance of AVX2 has increased from 1% to 2% for dav1d.
During the previous release, the speed using NEON assembly over C was around 80% which has been doubled now with DAV1D 0.2.0.
Performance for Arm64 has improved as there is 38% improvement for single-thread and a 53% improvement for multi-thread performances.
The 32-bit Arm (Armv7) has also improved as most assembly code can be fairly easily ported.
To know more about this news, check out the official post on Medium.
dav1d 0.1.0, the AV1 decoder by VideoLAN, is here
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