Av1an
Cross-platform command-line AV1 / VP9 / HEVC / H264 encoding framework with per scene quality encoding (by master-of-zen)
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Av1an
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Guide to Adopting AV1 Encoding
The hardware encoders are very fast and generally better than x264 (but not by as much as you'd think with the x264 slow preset).
In addition, there are threaded AV1 encoders you may be overlooking, like SVT-AV1. For non-realtime, my favorite is av1an, which also yields better quality than is possible from aomenc: https://github.com/master-of-zen/Av1an
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I have a feeling crunchyroll should be using AV1
I specifically used https://github.com/master-of-zen/Av1an with --target-quality 100 to keep the compression as close to lossless as possible (you could probably shave even more size off if you didn’t use near-lossless compression)
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Automatic choose encode settings?
There's also Av1an as suggested by someone else. It's going to produce more efficient encodes because it uses chunk-based encoding to reach the required VMAF for every single chunk, but this is also slower because every chunk will be re-encoded until the VMAF target is reached. It's also a PITA to compile, has a long list of bugs, and isn't very actively developed. One of the long-standing issues is that frames have a tendency to go missing during splitting, which IME is going to keep happening when the input files aren't standardized. And thus the recommendation is to transcode the input to lossless first, which is just completely unsustainable.
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Building pc for ffmpeg rendering
i'm still trying to figure out if av1an is the breakthrough to using large CPU counts without losing quality. but it's a ridiculously poorly documented program. i haven't gotten it to run effectively yet. https://github.com/master-of-zen/Av1an
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Codecs for the 4K Era: HEVC, AV1, VVC and Beyond
I don't know about VVC, but I've never seen a recommendation of preset 0 for SVT-AV1. The docs say "presets 1-3 represent extremely high efficiency, for use when encode time is not important and quality/size of the resulting video file is critical". It seems like 0 is the equivalent placebo preset. But if you want AV1 with coding efficiency over all else, IIRC the typical approach is to use av1an to detect scene transitions and farm out parallel encodes with aomenc.
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Automating av1 encoding?
That might be because it doesn't work.
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VMAF is confusing me
Have you seen Av1an? It's supposed to encode to a target VMAF.
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Trying to use av1an without success
Are you using the current version, 0.4.0, from https://github.com/master-of-zen/Av1an/releases
- Av1an - Cross-platform command-line AV1 encoding framework written in Rust
- Av1an: Cross-platform command-line AV1 encoding framework written in Rust
FFmpeg-Builds
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Tips for encoding AV1 with ffmpeg for higher *playback* performance?
Right now, I use ffmpeg to encode AV1 videos using libaom-av1 that comes with the BtbN ffmpeg daily auto static builds for Linux. The command would look like:
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I got 100 links to download FFMPEG binaries for Windows/MacOS/Linux/FreeBSD and most architechtures
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Installed FFmpeg but still can't clip media on yt-dlg?
I downloaded FFmpeg from here (ffmpeg-master-latest-win64-gpl.zip) and installed following this guide, but when I right click and clip an audio it doesn't work? It just downloads it normally
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The GMP library's website is under attack by a single GitHub user
Some more information here. The GitHub user has already removed repo from the code and uses a tarball now.
https://github.com/BtbN/FFmpeg-Builds/commit/d75466340a9a598...
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You shouldn't be posting these videos all over reddit to protest the blackout, and replacement of reddit mods!
Reddit Blackout has failed, but you should under no circumstances be posting 1gb videos of noise on every subreddit you can find in an effort to suffocate reddits bandwidth and processors, and you absolutely shouldnt download ffmpeg from https://github.com/BtbN/FFmpeg-Builds/releases/download/latest/ffmpeg-n6.0-latest-win64-gpl-6.0.zip and then extract it to your C:/ drive, open the command prompt and type "cd C:/ffmpeg", and then proceed to copy paste the line below:
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How to detect junk/garbage files transferred from failing hard drive?
You probably can use ffmpeg for that.
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How to install latest version of ffmpeg
The FFmpeg project itself has never provided compiled binaries. If you ever want support from them, you'll have to use a compiled version from the latest source. That's why I also provided a link to the BtbN daily builds. (John Van Sickle's builds are not quite up to date)
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New to encoding (I thought I wasn't) -- why, after using FFMPEG to use ProRes 5 to encode my MKV to MOV for editing in Prem. Pro (for a little quality loss as possible) does my file lose all its color?
You are not using latest FFmpeg, right? Here, our official binaries: https://github.com/BtbN/FFmpeg-Builds/releases/tag/latest
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He's not a dirtblock guys!!!
Used ffmpegif anyone is wondering
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How can I record My desktop without desync?
You have to manually use a more updated version. Such as this one: https://github.com/BtbN/FFmpeg-Builds/releases/download/latest/ffmpeg-n6.0-latest-linux64-gpl-6.0.tar.xz
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Av1an and FFmpeg-Builds you can also consider the following projects:
HandBrake - HandBrake's main development repository
media-autobuild_suite - This Windows Batchscript helps setup a Mingw-w64 compiler environment for building ffmpeg and other media tools under Windows.
SVT-AV1
FastFlix - FastFlix is a free GUI for HEVC and AV1 encoding, GIF/WebP/AVIF creation, and more!
ytarchive - Garbage Youtube livestream downloader
NotEnoughAV1Encodes - GUI for AV1 (aomenc, rav1e & svt-av1)
aria2 - aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source, cross platform download utility operated in command-line. It supports HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent and Metalink.
ab-av1 - AV1 re-encoding using ffmpeg, svt-av1 & vmaf.
vmaf - Perceptual video quality assessment based on multi-method fusion.
nmkoder - Media encoding, muxing, analysis toolkit for Windows
ALVR - Stream VR games from your PC to your headset via Wi-Fi