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ab-av1 – AV1 encoding with fast quality sampling

September 16, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

ab-av1 is a video encoding tool that samples VMAF or XPSNR, searches for suitable CRF values, predicts output size, and drives FFmpeg encodes.

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