How are they so slow to add something so game changing? This should have been added a long time ago

Hurry up twitch, don't get left behind...

So, whatever happened to AV1 support plans? Grand beta announcement in January 2024, indefinitely postponed in March, and then... nothing?

Es increible no poder transmitir con buena calidad con una AMD RX 7800XT por no tener el ehvc 265 o AV1

@Nightcrawla you do not deserve much response, by the fact that you do not understand my comment, and as the 5 of which I put that are the same, VP9 to this day is vs AV1, because google updates it, but I see that you are not informed at all or updated news, that the first thing, second, I do not read closed minds or respond to them, so feel flattered that at least I have spent a little time returning to a ticket that is practically forgotten, because people who need and ask for AV1 in 2023 does not matter and leave them aside where I include myself because now I use AMD, I know how the market works, technology and companies, I know why they do not put the AV1, and I repeat, excuses.

this would help drastically considering i have an arc gpu i need av1

This is important to me!

100% needs to be added

Agreed.

You are right

Always fun to see what kind of garbage washes up in these forums. Were it not for these places, where would all those folks who are fun at parties congregate when they're not out being fun at parties?

We (small streamers) want AV1. We are here to upvote! I have purchased an Intel ARC card specifically for this purpose and will be using it for livestreaming to YouTube. Whatever the hurdles are, Twitch should be paying attention to that aspect (YT/Discord supporting AV1, Twitch not supporting) of the AV1 issue.

Hence this poll.

The rest of you, stay classy. :D

Precisamos que o Codec AV1 seja real na plataforma, pois é um verdadeiro retrocesso diante das concorrentes não possuir!

With Intel Arc being a thing and actually becoming good, plus AMD / ATI GPUs not having any other encoder well supported in OBS, AV1 encoding would be a real game changer a lot of streamers would appreciate.

AV1 would make AMD GPUs viable. We need this!

Nobody gives a fudge why or why not or how and how not to do it. Stop discussing this as if you have or had any form of influence whatsoever. This is not a discussion board. This is to show an interest if there was a BETA for its functionality on twitch.

I’m not insulting anyone if being told you don’t understand how things work when you clearly do not is insulting to you then that is on you.

I’m not against them adding AV1 I voted in support of it, they should add it to be competitive in the industry. But the people raving about the savings twitch will experience are just incredibly unaware of how codecs work, majority of people think it’s as simple as enabling it, it’s going to be millions of dollars in server infrastructure upgrades which wasn’t even feasible at scale until the release of the MA35D accelerator, then adding at least 50% in cost to deliver having to provide transcoding for every single AV1 stream to vp9. Making a ROI or even a break even point so far out that it’s not even something twitch would consider, maybe if amazons IVS has another more lucrative reason besides twitch to being the upgrade they will but twitch alone will not make that call.

If it gets added it’s almost guaranteed going to be limited to partners as a way to limit the overhead of transcoding, they’re not going to spend millions to double delivery data for 1-5 viewer streams.

@ChasePK , again so what. Why are you raging against the idea of Twitch supporting something they will have to anyway?

If they don't support AV1, then more streamers will just move to Youtube because youtube can say "better quality, less expensive, less latency", even if that's only true for those who have AV1 hardware.

Now calm down and stop insulting people.

You again aren’t understanding. It will not save them money on data. There’s literally a real world example of this right now you can go look at.

YouTube allows AV1 streaming. Go pull up an AV1 stream. The person may be streaming 1440p at 6k bitrate. But YouTube has to transcode that stream to a more common codec like vp9 and doing that they also double the bitrate the maintain the quality. Please educate yourself before ranting about things you do not understand.

@ChasePK So what. It's not like Twitch is going to be like "oh you can only stream at h264 because some poor guy in Korea didn't want to replace their 15 year old first-generation smartTV. Did you know your web browser can do AV1 in software even on hardware released in 2014?

Quite frankly it's a shame that Twitch neither supports HDR, 4K or H265, but seeing as no streaming software did either, it wasn't something to lose sleep over. But AV1 can literately increase the quality or reduce the bitrate necessary to maintain the same quality. It's quite literately in Twitch's best interests, particularly in Asia to do this, because that's where they are paying the highest rates for data.

@kisaiTensbi “it leaves smart TVs as the last holdout” you genuinely can’t think that every single person has bought the latest and greatest devices and are able to natively decode. Not every single viewer is out here shelling out thousands of dollars for latest gen CPUs/GPUs or cell phones. Look at steam hardware surveys a large chunk of people still rock 10 series gpus.

We are many years away until AV1 will be a commonly capable codec to decode. You need to step outside of your bubble for a second and get some perspective lol. Yeah we all want AV1 but the reality like MANY others have stated is the only way it’ll come to the platform is twitch will have to transcode EVERY stream to more streamlined codec for the average user to be able to watch.