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Distributed AV1 Video Encoding

Distributed AV1 Video Encoding

Hi everyone, Yesterday, I began working on writing code to encode video files to AV1 in a distributed computing fashion using my private BOINC server. I wrote some PHP code and developed a Windows Forms software that will submit the video files to the distributed computing server so that it can send jobs to connected machines. The encoding software I’m using is rav1e. This software is currently single-threaded, which means that encoding videos will take some time, especially when using…

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Downloading ffmpeg for rav1e GUI

Downloading ffmpeg for rav1e GUI

Note: This guide is obsolete. Please refer to the new guide to download ffmpeg by clicking here. Hi everyone, Today, I’ll show you the steps to download ffmpeg for the rav1e_gui encoding tool, which requires this to pre-process and post-process video files when encoding them to the new AV1 video format. Below are the steps: 1. Navigate to https://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/ 2. Select the nightly build which is the first one shown in “Version”. Select the 64-bit Windows version if you have…

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Downloading ffmpeg (General instructions)

Downloading ffmpeg (General instructions)

Note: This guide is obsolete. Please refer to the new guide to download ffmpeg by clicking here. Hi everyone, Today, I’ll show you the steps to download ffmpeg in your Windows machine. This is needed for tools like rav1e_gui, which uses ffmpeg to pre-process and post-process video files when encoding them to the new AV1 video format. Below are the steps: 1. Navigate to https://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/ 2. Select the nightly build which is the first one shown in “Version”. Select the…

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rav1e AV1 encoding tests – 10/15/2018

rav1e AV1 encoding tests – 10/15/2018

Hi everyone, Today, I’ve been performing some AV1 encoding tests using the rav1e encoder. You need an AV1-compatible web browser to see the videos below. The following videos were encoded using speed 10 and different quantizer settings to compare the quality. rav1e is in constant development so I’ll be performing lots of tests. The following uses the appveyor build from yesterday. I’ve managed to install the dependencies needed to build myself rav1e when new commits comes out, so expect my…

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