vmaf VS rav1e

Netflix did VMAF for this: https://github.com/Netflix/vmaf

It checks a reference video against an encoded video and returns a score representing how close the encoded video appears to the original from a human perspective.

Not sure this is the right sub but I'm going to encode my entire BluRay collection in AV1 / NVEC. I'd like to optimize settings with VMAF but would like an ubuntu/debian based GUI to work with.

VMAF for anybody that doesn't know quantifies the quality difference between a source and modified video.

Netflix even has a method to measure perceivable quality difference. A little while ago I used this tool to calculate this.

Well you can use something like https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo to look at the files and https://github.com/Netflix/vmaf to see if there is no loss.

Vmaf exists

You can try some tests https://github.com/Netflix/vmaf

You can try VMAF as well (which ffmpeg supports). It's normally recommended to make a lossless copy first as a baseline too

Sure. You'll see it very often in codec implementations. From rav1e, a fast AV1 encoder mostly written in Rust: https://github.com/xiph/rav1e/tree/master/src/x86

Large portions of the algorithm have been translated into assembly for ARM and x86. Shaving even a couple percent off something like motion compensation search will add up to meaningful gains.

Or the current reference implementation of JPEG: https://github.com/libjpeg-turbo/libjpeg-turbo/tree/main/sim...

Again, if anything AOM would be the one restricting licenses to AV1 (if they chose to) except AOM has stated and also published AV1 in a way to allow license free access to development (which allows people to make forks of the official build like it's open source) and usage. (1)(2) I don't see why they would suddenly change this.

You can speed up the sampling process with --vmaf n_subsample=5, which in my experience works more accurately than either 2 or 4, possibly due to this bug/feature present in multiple encoders. You might also need to manually set the number of threads used for VMAF calculation with --vmaf n_threads=16, but YMMV.

That remember me of https://github.com/xiph/rav1e which is an AV1 encoder

I put in the request for ffmpeg passthrough mastering-display data a few years ago and haven't heard of any support yet.

It's getting there.. Initial steps for FFmepg: https://patchwork.ffmpeg.org/project/ffmpeg/list/?series=8444 rav1e: https://github.com/xiph/rav1e/pull/3000

It's entirely possible to re-use bits of other HW encoders for the first pass (motion estimation, etc).