AV1

About this collection

AV1 is a specific area of Codecs, part of Encoding & Codecs, and includes 22 curated resources.

Resources (showing 1–22 of 22)

• AOMedia — AV1 Decoder Verification Tool (Argon Streams)Official AOMedia distribution page for the Argon Streams AV1 decoder verification suite and its spec-coverage reporting.
• AV1 CodecConference talk deck on working with the AV1 codec — encoding workflows, tooling and practical adoption notes for video engineers.
• AV1 decoder modelDescription of the AV1 decoder model.
• Introducing SVT-AV1: a scalable open-source AV1 frameworkBy Andrey Norkin, Joel Sole, Kyle Swanson, Mariana Afonso, Anush Moorthy, Anne Aaron.
• Jean-Marc Valin — Core Coding Tools in AV1 (paper)Free technical paper on AV1 core coding tools (partition trees, MV referencing) by the Opus/Daala codec engineer.
• NotEnoughAV1Encodes-QtLinux Qt GUI wrapping aomenc/rav1e/SVT-AV1 encoders with chunked parallel encoding support.
• SVT-AV1An open-source AV1 encoder and decoder from the Scalable Video Technology project. SVT-AV1 is optimized for performance and multi-threading…
• SVT-AV1 v3.0 Release Announcement (AOMedia)Announcement of SVT-AV1 3.0: 15-25% speedups in presets M3-M10 fast-decode mode, 10-25% Arm SVE2 high-bit-depth gains, lossless and AVIF mo…
• SVT-AV1-PSY — psychovisual SVT-AV1 forkCommunity fork of SVT-AV1 adding psychovisual fidelity enhancements (perceptual tuning, metrics) that are being upstreamed to the mainline…
• SVT-AV1-PSYEXActively-maintained fork of SVT-AV1 with psychovisual tuning; improves default perceptual quality settings. Successor to the discontinued p…
• SVT-AV1: an open-source AV1 encoder and decoderBy Andrey Norkin, Joel Sole, Mariana Afonso, Kyle Swanson, Agata Opalach, Anush Moorthy, Anne Aaron.
• The Hidden AV1 Gift in Google MeetwebrtcHacks reverse-engineering of Google Meet's AV1 rollout: when AV1 is selected, its SVC modes, and observed quality/bitrate behaviour.
• Tinkering with AV1-SVC Support in JanusMeetecho engineering write-up on implementing AV1 SVC layer forwarding in a production SFU, including Dependency Descriptor handling.
• VersatileFilmGrain (InterDigital)Software model of hardware-friendly film grain synthesis supporting MPEG FGC SEI and AOM/AV1 parameters, from InterDigital R&D.
• aom-av1-lavish — tuned aomenc forkFork of libaom/aomenc hyper-tuned for perceptual fidelity using butteraugli, VMAF and SSIMULACRA2 rate-distortion optimization.
• av1-grainRust library for parsing and generating AV1 film grain synthesis data, extracted from the rav1e encoder.
• grav1synth — AV1 Grain Synthesis Analyzer/EditorRust tool to extract, strip, and estimate film-grain synthesis tables from encoded AV1 files by comparing source vs denoised diffs.
• rAV1atorGUI application for rav1e video encoding paired with Opus audio encoding.
• rav1d — memory-safe AV1 decoder in RustA Rust port of the dav1d AV1 decoder by ISRG/Prossimo, providing a memory-safe, performance-competitive decoder for the AV1 codec.
• rav1d-safe — rav1d fork replacing hand-written asm with safe Rust SIMDFork of the rav1d AV1 decoder that swaps ~160k lines of hand-written x86/ARM assembly for safe Rust SIMD intrinsics while targeting within…
• rav1e_jsJavaScript/WASM bindings for the rav1e AV1 encoder, enabling in-browser AV1 encoding.
• wav1c — Wondrous AV1 CoderSpec-compliant AV1 encoder written from scratch in safe Rust with zero dependencies; usable as a library, via C FFI, WASM, or as an FFmpeg…