Av1an VS FFmpeg-Builds

Compare Av1an vs FFmpeg-Builds and see what are their differences.

Av1an

Cross-platform command-line AV1 / VP9 / HEVC / H264 encoding framework with per scene quality encoding (by master-of-zen)

FFmpeg-Builds

FFmpeg Builds for yt-dlp (by yt-dlp)
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Av1an FFmpeg-Builds
65 39
1,326 505
- 7.3%
7.3 8.7
21 days ago 4 days ago
Rust Shell
GNU General Public License v3.0 only MIT License
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Av1an

Posts with mentions or reviews of Av1an. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-03.
  • Guide to Adopting AV1 Encoding
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Nov 2023
    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

  • Automatic choose encode settings?
    3 projects | /r/ffmpeg | 29 May 2023
    Basically Av1an.
    3 projects | /r/ffmpeg | 29 May 2023
    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.
  • VMAF is confusing me
    2 projects | /r/DataHoarder | 29 Jan 2023
    Have you seen Av1an? It's supposed to encode to a target VMAF.
  • [Guide] Installing av1an on Ubuntu 22.04
    3 projects | /r/AV1 | 11 Jan 2023
    git clone https://github.com/master-of-zen/Av1an cd Av1an cargo build --release sudo ldconfig
  • AV1 Encoder development series Part 1: working on rav1e in a different, better and more forward manner
    2 projects | /r/AV1 | 23 Nov 2022
    Here's a couple of pages that cover the basics of aomenc: https://github.com/master-of-zen/Av1an/blob/master/docs/Encoders/aomenc.md https://gist.github.com/shssoichiro/a46ff01db70243c1719479f6518ea34d For more of a deep dive into settings, you can join the discord, lots of people share their settings and you can see what's working well for others.
  • Should I recompress video I shot with mobile?
    2 projects | /r/DataHoarder | 20 Nov 2022
    Av1an can even aim for a target quality.
  • did I fail at preserving dvds? mpeg2 vs h264 vs av1
    5 projects | /r/PleX | 8 Nov 2022
    I like using NotEnoughAV1Encodes. There's also Av1an, and ab-av1.
  • Currently impossible to use av1an on Windows?
    2 projects | /r/AV1 | 13 Aug 2022
    In your case, I'd get one of the [nightly builds](https://github.com/master-of-zen/Av1an/releases/tag/latest) of Av1an. They should work with ffmpeg 5.
  • Guide how to use av1an ?
    2 projects | /r/AV1 | 16 Jun 2022
    1.9 release notes with Dynamic Progress Bar, Batch Encode, Config files https://github.com/master-of-zen/Av1an/releases/tag/1.9

FFmpeg-Builds

Posts with mentions or reviews of FFmpeg-Builds. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-24.
  • I got 100 links to download FFMPEG binaries for Windows/MacOS/Linux/FreeBSD and most architechtures
    13 projects | /r/ffmpeg | 24 Sep 2023
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  • How download YT Membership Videos
    7 projects | /r/youtubedl | 10 Jul 2023
    Download https://github.com/yt-dlp/FFmpeg-Builds/releases/download/latest/ffmpeg-master-latest-win64-gpl.zip
  • Small query
    2 projects | /r/ffmpeg | 28 Apr 2023
    They recommend using their own builds: https://github.com/yt-dlp/FFmpeg-Builds
  • Is Y2mate actually safe?
    3 projects | /r/antivirus | 16 Apr 2023
    Second, use https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp (or https://github.com/oleksis/youtube-dl-gui if you want a GUI), then download the latest n6.0 (non-shared) zip for your platform (e.g. win64) from https://github.com/yt-dlp/FFmpeg-Builds and extract the 3 executables from the bin folder to the same folder as your yt-dlp executable.
  • i have a problem making a YT downloader using ChatGPT
    3 projects | /r/learnpython | 15 Mar 2023
  • SOS on Total Biscuits youtube channel. Possibility that all of his videos are scrubbed to try and prevent AI voice training.
    5 projects | /r/DataHoarder | 8 Mar 2023
    It should be fairly easy to set up on Fedora. Install (I put it in /opt and add it to path) yt-dlp/FFmpeg, then install (/opt + path) yt-dlp/yt-dlp. yt-dlp/FFmpeg should come with its required dependencies (don't quote me). YT-DLP comes with most dependencies bundled, except FFmpeg. AtomicParsley is the only other one I've installed.
  • I ran "pip install ffmpeg-python", what now?
    3 projects | /r/youtubedl | 14 Dec 2022
    Download an ffmpeg build for your system. https://github.com/yt-dlp/FFmpeg-Builds/releases Extract the contents of the "bin" folder within the downloaded file to somewhere convenient, like, C:\Path. I just created a folder named "Path" there because I can.
    3 projects | /r/youtubedl | 14 Dec 2022
    https://github.com/yt-dlp/FFmpeg-Builds".
  • Need a downloader recommendation.
    5 projects | /r/Piracy | 27 Nov 2022
    https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp (or use https://github.com/oleksis/youtube-dl-gui if you want a GUI, and set it to use yt-dlp in settings), then download the latest n5.1 (non-shared) zip for your platform (e.g. win64) from https://github.com/yt-dlp/FFmpeg-Builds and extract the 3 executables from the bin folder to the same folder as your yt-dlp executable.
  • Won't open anymore
    2 projects | /r/youtubedl | 15 Nov 2022
    Download https://github.com/yt-dlp/FFmpeg-Builds/releases/download/latest/ffmpeg-master-latest-win64-gpl.zip

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Av1an and FFmpeg-Builds you can also consider the following projects:

HandBrake - HandBrake's main development repository

SVT-AV1

FastFlix - FastFlix is a free GUI for HEVC and AV1 encoding, GIF/WebP/AVIF creation, and more!

NotEnoughAV1Encodes - GUI for AV1 (aomenc, rav1e & svt-av1)

FFmpeg-Builds

ab-av1 - AV1 re-encoding using ffmpeg, svt-av1 & vmaf.

yt-dlp - A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader

nmkoder - Media encoding, muxing, analysis toolkit for Windows

vmaf - Perceptual video quality assessment based on multi-method fusion.

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.

digital_video_introduction - A hands-on introduction to video technology: image, video, codec (av1, vp9, h265) and more (ffmpeg encoding). Translations: 🇺🇸 🇨🇳 🇯🇵 🇮🇹 🇰🇷 🇷🇺 🇧🇷 🇪🇸

media-autobuild_suite - This Windows Batchscript helps setup a Mingw-w64 compiler environment for building ffmpeg and other media tools under Windows.