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Severe Performance Degradation with SVT-AV1 Software Encoding in OBS
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Personal experienceImported from BlueskyPublished Oct 15, 2026
Impact: SVT AV1 encoder is unusable when encoding in OBS
From the original report
“experimenting with AV1 encoding in OBS, everything im looking at online is saying the SVT encoder should be much much much faster than the AOM encoder (which is the reference software encoder), but like SVT is unusable? AOM runs fine?”
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Details & sources
- How received
- Imported from Bluesky
- Source published
- Oct 15, 2026
- Observed
- Unknown
- Added to CleanApp
- Oct 15, 2026
- Product connection
- Affected product or place
- Original issue status
- Unknown
- Resolution
- Unknown
- Verification
- Not independently reproduced
Source count unknown
Why this source type: The author directly describes their own testing of AV1 encoding in OBS, encountering unexpected poor performance making the SVT encoder unusable compared to AOM.
CleanApp AI summary
Severe Performance Degradation with SVT-AV1 Software Encoding in OBS: A user reports that SVT-AV1 software encoding in OBS is practically unusable due to unexpectedly poor performance, whereas the AOM reference encoder works as expected on the same system with an RX 6800XT GPU.
Report counts are not affected-user counts. A closed original issue does not confirm a fix.
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