libavif VS HandBrake

Compare libavif vs HandBrake and see what are their differences.

libavif

libavif - Library for encoding and decoding .avif files (by AOMediaCodec)

HandBrake

HandBrake's main development repository (by HandBrake)
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libavif HandBrake
44 980
1,329 15,285
4.1% 2.8%
9.7 9.7
7 days ago 1 day ago
C C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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libavif

Posts with mentions or reviews of libavif. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-12.
  • CVE-2023-4863: Heap buffer overflow in WebP (Chrome)
    18 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Sep 2023
    It's 2023, surely this is not yet another bug related to memory unsafety that could be avoided if we'd stop writing critical code that deals with extremely complex untrusted input (media codecs) in memory unsafe languages?

    Yep, of course it is: https://github.com/webmproject/libwebp/commit/902bc919033134...

    I guess libwebp could be excused as it was started when there were no alternatives, but even for new projects today we're still committing the same mistake[1][2][3].

    [1] -- https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav1d

    [2] -- https://github.com/AOMediaCodec/libavif

    [3] -- https://github.com/AOMediaCodec/libiamf

    Yep. Keep writing these in C; surely nothing will go wrong.

  • Is there any clear documentation on how to make avif collections and how to read them?
    2 projects | /r/AV1 | 24 Apr 2023
    As far as I understand you are talking about this plugin. I don't know c++ and half of the code was like a black magic, but if I get it correctly, it encodes your images with libavif, and adds custom metadata ([solar/time of day] -> json -> base64).
  • FSF Slams Google over Dropping JPEG-XL in Chrome
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Apr 2023
    So a few dozen comments, but so far it doesn't look like any mention the immediate thing that jumped out at me which was the claims vs AVIF:

    >"In turn, what users will be given is yet another facet of the web that Google itself controls: the AVIF format."

    Huh? I'll admit I haven't been following codecs as super ultra closely as I used to, but I thought AOM was a pretty broad coalition of varying interests and AV1 an open, royalty free codec that was plenty open source friendly? I've heard plenty of reasonable arguments that JPEG XL has some real technical advantages over AVIF and as well as superior performance is much more feature rich and scalable. So I could see people being bummed for that. But this is the first time I've heard the assertion that it's somehow a Google project? I mean, AOM's libavif reference is BSD too [0]? I'd love some more details on that from anyone who has been following this more closely. I can even understand if AOM isn't as community friendly and an accusation that it's dominated by big corps, but in that case why single out Google alone? From wiki:

    >The governing members of the Alliance for Open Media are Amazon, Apple, ARM, Cisco, Facebook, Google, Huawei, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla, Netflix, Nvidia, Samsung Electronics and Tencent.

    Like, Google is certainly significant, but that's a lot of equally heavy hitters. And interesting that Mozilla is there too.

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    0: https://github.com/AOMediaCodec/libavif

  • JPEG XL support has officially been removed from Chromium
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Dec 2022
    > You have a good point that AVIF layered image items can act like such P/B-frames. Do libavif (or other AVIF implementations if any) make use of them?

    Seemingly. As search for "libavif progressive encoding" shows several issues about this, and a search for "progressive" in https://github.com/AOMediaCodec/libavif/blob/main/include/av... shows an enum for avifProgressiveState, appears to show support for it.

  • Animated AVIF and JXL tools for Windows
    2 projects | /r/AV1 | 20 Nov 2022
    Apart from mpv and ffplay, the only software I currently have installed that can play animated AVIF is Chromium. And from what I've read from this libavif bug report, I'm not sure if looping animated files in general is something that's just done by default by a lot of software regardless of whether the file is marked as a loop or not.
  • Google Outlines Why They Are Removing JPEG-XL Support From Chrome
    2 projects | /r/jpegxl | 1 Nov 2022
    libavif is at version 0.11.1, see https://github.com/AOMediaCodec/libavif/tags
  • [libavif git] libavif 0.11.0 RC (release candidate) has been released
    2 projects | /r/AV1 | 13 Oct 2022
    AV1 encoders in libavif apparently now have access to autotiling as an option, which automatically sets the number of tiles in a frame based on frame area: https://github.com/AOMediaCodec/libavif/commit/ff322862b708e505349c9396fdcf7aaec9123f47
    2 projects | /r/AV1 | 13 Oct 2022
  • Losslessly Optimising Images
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Aug 2022
  • What is AVIF?
    6 projects | dev.to | 26 Apr 2022
    The Alliance for Open Media's AVIF encoding and decoding library is also in a Github repo. Sharp, a Node module, has AVIF support. To make AVIF images, you can use avif.io, Squoosh, and the Squoosh command line tool aimed at supporting Node.js apps. GIMP and Paint.net support AVIF and there are Photoshop plugins. Mac has no plans to support AVIF, but you can easily install a codec plugin on Windows 10 for native support.

HandBrake

Posts with mentions or reviews of HandBrake. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-10.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing libavif and HandBrake you can also consider the following projects:

Tdarr - Tdarr - Distributed transcode automation using FFmpeg/HandBrake + Audio/Video library analytics + video health checking (Windows, macOS, Linux & Docker)

staxrip - 🎞 Video encoding GUI for Windows.

Av1an - Cross-platform command-line AV1 / VP9 / HEVC / H264 encoding framework with per scene quality encoding

FFmpeg - Mirror of https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git

obs-studio - OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording

lossless-cut - The swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing

VideoLAN Client (VLC) - VLC media player - All pull requests are ignored, please follow https://wiki.videolan.org/Sending_Patches_VLC/

TwitchRecover - Twitch VOD tool which recovers all VODs including those that are sub only or deleted.

davinci-resolve-linux - Setup Davinci Resolve on Linux an Fix Issues with Importing and Exporting Media

iina - The modern video player for macOS.

rav1e - The fastest and safest AV1 encoder.

cavif-rs - AVIF image creator in pure Rust