I'm trying to optimize seek speed with x265. No matter what encoding settings I try, ProRes still seeks more quickly/gracefully. This makes sense since it was built for editing, but I'm sure there's got to be something I'm missing to better improve x265.
So far, -tune fastdecode, keyint=1, maxrate and -b (to remove B Frame calculations) yield the best results, but they're still unsatisfactory. I've been pouring over the docs but there's so much jargon I just don't understand. Perhaps another codec like VP9 / WebM would be better for this purpose?
From what I can tell, there's no bottleneck with CPU, read speed or RAM... or GPU for that matter. Monitoring these processes show minimal drain. Is there just an amount of decoding in a highly compressed format like x265 that can't be circumvented?
Thank you in advance for your help.