Typical end users do not. Companies do because it will save them money.
Enthusiasts will care because it could save them storage space for equivalent quality, though if the cost of encoding is so high then just in terms of energy costs you may save money just going for a cheaper codec and upgrading storage with the saved money.
Enthusiasts will care because it could save them storage space for equivalent quality
That’s the thing, even if you ignore that such scenarios involve lossy-to-lossy re-encodes (bad), and even when you ignore the general lack of psychoacoustic tuning in new encoders, the advertised so called objective“20%-30% improvement” is not universal, and only applies to bit-starved resolution-maxed encodes.
Your file is 1080p or 720p? you won’t get that improvement, even in not-fit-for-purpose “objective” measures.
You want to encode at a higher bitrate than YouTube to actually get good quality? you won’t get that improvement either.
So if you embark on such a futile journey, you could be wasting a lot of computing power for no, or even negative, gain.
Full-length encodes will take days to finish, and we are not talking single digits.
An almost, but not really, practical encoder will probably take at least a year of development before it’s ready.
And anyway, do end-users still care about codecs (beyond decoding complexity/hardware support)?
Typical end users do not. Companies do because it will save them money.
Enthusiasts will care because it could save them storage space for equivalent quality, though if the cost of encoding is so high then just in terms of energy costs you may save money just going for a cheaper codec and upgrading storage with the saved money.
That’s the thing, even if you ignore that such scenarios involve lossy-to-lossy re-encodes (bad), and even when you ignore the general lack of psychoacoustic tuning in new encoders, the advertised so called objective “20%-30% improvement” is not universal, and only applies to bit-starved resolution-maxed encodes.
Your file is 1080p or 720p? you won’t get that improvement, even in not-fit-for-purpose “objective” measures.
You want to encode at a higher bitrate than YouTube to actually get good quality? you won’t get that improvement either.
So if you embark on such a futile journey, you could be wasting a lot of computing power for no, or even negative, gain.