# 2.6.4 AV1 Intel Hardware Encoding
**URL:** https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/2-6-4-av1-intel-hardware-encoding/5525
**Category:** Hardware Encoding
**Created:** [August 13, 2024, 10:42pm UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/2-6-4-av1-intel-hardware-encoding/5525 "2024-08-13T22:42:45Z")
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### Author:  [@jsam01](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/u/jsam01)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2024, 10:42pm UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/2-6-4-av1-intel-hardware-encoding/5525/1 "2024-08-13T22:42:45Z")
Not really a question, just wanted to mention that I tried 2.6.4 but the AV1 quality isn’t great with Intel Arc hardware at least with the given settings.
We spoke about 2.6.3 beta and you provided the following settings I put in my profiles.conf AV1 settings and they give much better video quality in 2.6.4 as well (though slightly bigger files)
ffmpeg-video=-ss 0 -vf yadif=0:-1:1,hqdn3d -vcodec libsvtav1 -preset 6 -crf 32 -map 0:v -sn
handbrake-video=–start-at duration:0 -e svt\_av1 --encoder-preset 6 -q 32
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### Author:  [@Goose](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/u/Goose)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2024, 5:33pm UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/2-6-4-av1-intel-hardware-encoding/5525/2 "2024-08-15T17:33:37Z")
Great feedback, this is good reference for other users.
We reduced the default `crf` from 32 to 37 because it was generating very large files when using the software encoder. I guess the hardware encoder quality (intel) isn’t as good so you need a higher `crf` to achieve a similar quality. A suggestion, if you’re using hardware encoding, rather than changing the default profile parameters (which will get reset each time you upgrade MCEBuddy), try to move the quality slider (like make it +30%) which has the same effect (it will increase the `crf`) but now the conversion task settings will carry over through each upgrade as it doesn’t depend on the default profile values.
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### Author:  [@jsam01](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/u/jsam01)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2024, 2:23pm UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/2-6-4-av1-intel-hardware-encoding/5525/3 "2024-08-16T14:23:38Z")
Ok thanks. I’ve been doing some quick tries between +20 and +30 and seems pretty decent - just trying to figure out my preferred file size vs quality.