[GeneticGenesis]

No worries!

While some of the larger UGC platforms do use VP9 for live streaming, it is only for a limited subset of high concurrent viewer streams, and yes, in many cases those aren't running the encodes on commodity hardware.

As for AV1, there really aren't any live implementations ready right now, a few have been demo'd, but I'm not aware of any deployments today.

[02020202]

I have checked [1], so the VP9 already has generally available hardware support, and Intel just a few days ago releasted their Tiger CPUs that do support AV1 [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VP9#Hardware_implementations

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1#Hardware