I’ve been experimenting with AV1 using FFmpeg with SVT-AV1 for 2 years. I’ve encoded quite a lot of my videos in AV1 by now, mostly just animated content....
I’m surprised nobody here has recommend the usage of the 2 main aomenc forks (aom-av1-psy and aom-av1-lavish) and my fork of SVT-AV1: github.com/BlueSwordM/SVT-AV1/commits/master
It can make quite the difference in terms of fidelity.
The results are decent. I’ve personally tested it on my “psy” fork of SVT-AV1, and it usually looks a bit better than the VQ tune, and it is somewhat more competent at higher fidelity levels.
[SVT-AV1-PSY-git] The 2.0.0-A release: a new level of encoding prowess! (github.com)
We’re here again with a new SVT-AV1-PSY release....
[SVT-AV1 git] Introduce the variance boost feature (proper psy based variance spatio-temporal adaptive quantization) (gitlab.com)
Yes, it’s finally been released after cooking for so long in the svt-av1-psy fork!
[SVT-AV1-PSY] Add deltaq-mode=2 variance-boost feature by juliobbv (large BD-rate increase and psy gains in hard scenes) (github.com)
Hello everyone. It’s certainly been a while....
My experience of using AV1 so far.
I’ve been experimenting with AV1 using FFmpeg with SVT-AV1 for 2 years. I’ve encoded quite a lot of my videos in AV1 by now, mostly just animated content....
[SVT-AV1 Git] The experimental SSIM RD tune in SVT-AV1 has been added to mainline (gitlab.com)