Hey everyone - wanted to announce a nice Aviator update that happens to coincide with an SVT-AV1-PSY update that we pushed just yesterday.
Aviator 0.5.1 has a couple new features, but chief among them is a new Subjective Tuning toggle for enabling encoder changes that improve visual quality at the expense of metrics. This is powered by SVT-AV1-PSY's new Tune 3 authored by Clybius; it adds subjectively motivated optimization to the existing Tune 2's great performance for an incredible balance of retaining fine detail in videos while still preventing blocking.
Here's a comparison encoded with Aviator (both 10-second videos were 7.5MB, down from the lossless source's 732.8 MB): https://slow.pics/c/tdrO5dY4
(the source is Netflix's foodmarket at 1080p)
If you prefer the smoother-looking, more appeal-oriented shot here, that is OK too - Subjective Tuning is toggleable!
Aviator 0.5.1 should be available on Flathub pretty soon. Enjoy!
