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Why Dead Space AV1 Encoding Changes Streaming for Retro Gamers
For years, streaming older games has been a compromise. You either accept a soft, blocky mess at lower bitrates or you push the bitrate so high that your upload connection buckles. Retro games, with their flat colour fields, crisp pixel edges, and fast scrolling, are some of the hardest content to encode well. The usual codecs, H.264 and even H.265, struggle to keep those sharp lines intact without chewing through data. That is where the recent push around dead space av1 enc