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Video · AV1 · VMAF

Laravel ab-av1

Tell it the quality you want, and ab-av1 finds the smallest AV1 encode that reaches it. Read from any Laravel disk, and write to any disk.

composer require foxws/laravel-ab-av1
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Latest release
3.1.1
Requires
PHP ^8.4
Laravel
13.x
Runtime
ab-av1, FFmpeg, foxws/laravel-media
Licence
MIT
Downloads
1.7K/mo

Introduction

This package runs ab-av1 from Laravel to encode video to AV1.

Normally you pick a CRF value (a quality setting) and hope the result looks good and isn't too big. ab-av1 does that for you: you set a target quality score, called VMAF, and it test-encodes short samples of your video to find the CRF that reaches it with the smallest file.

It's an add-on for foxws/laravel-media: you open media with laravel-media, and abAv1() encodes it.

use Foxws\Media\Facades\Media;

Media::fromDisk('media')
    ->open('videos/clip.mp4')
    ->abAv1()
    ->withMinVMAF(95)
    ->toDisk('s3')
    ->save('encoded/clip.mp4');

Features

  • Encode at a target quality (VMAF or XPSNR) instead of guessing a CRF.
  • Read input from, and write output to, any Laravel disk, with laravel-media's concurrent S3 uploads.
  • Use svt-av1, hardware encoders like VAAPI, or any other encoder FFmpeg supports, with laravel-media's filters.
  • Test-encode samples first, or compare the quality of two files.
  • laravel-media's process and export events, error reasons, temporary file cleanup after queue jobs, and Media::fake() in tests.

Requirements

Let your AI agent do the hard parts. This package ships a Laravel Boost skill, laravel-ab-av1-development, that teaches your agent how to install, configure and use Laravel ab-av1. Install Boost and select the skill when prompted:

composer require laravel/boost --dev
php artisan boost:install

Already using Boost? Run php artisan boost:update --discover to pick up the skill. Then just ask, for example: "Encode uploaded videos to AV1 at a VMAF of 95 and save them to S3."

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