Configuration

Publish the config file to change the defaults:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag="ab-av1-config"

Every option can also be set in your .env. The quality and encoder options are defaults: calling a method like withPreset() overrides them for that encode.

Temporary files, logging, and the ffmpeg and ffprobe paths ab-av1 runs come from laravel-media's config/media.php.

ab-av1

Option	.env	Default	What it does
binary	AB_AV1_BINARY	ab-av1	The ab-av1 binary to run, from your PATH or a full path.
timeout	AB_AV1_TIMEOUT	14400	How long one command may run, in seconds. Encoding a long video can take hours.

Quality and encoder defaults

Option	.env	Default	What it does
preset	AB_AV1_PRESET	6	Encoder speed. For svt-av1, from 0 (slowest, smallest files) to 13 (fastest).
min_vmaf	AB_AV1_MIN_VMAF	94	The VMAF score auto-encode and crf-search aim for.
max_encoded_percent	AB_AV1_MAX_ENCODED_PERCENT	300	Fail when the result would be larger than this percentage of the original.
samples	AB_AV1_SAMPLES	ab-av1's default	How many samples to test.
encoder	AB_AV1_ENCODER	ab-av1's default (libsvtav1)	FFmpeg's encoder name, e.g. av1_vaapi.
encoder_args	AB_AV1_ENCODER_ARGS	none	Space-separated key=value encoder arguments, each passed as --enc.
pix_format	AB_AV1_PIX_FORMAT	ab-av1's default	The pixel format, e.g. yuv420p10le.
video_filter	AB_AV1_VIDEO_FILTER	none	An FFmpeg video filter, e.g. scale=1280:-2.
ffmpeg_input_options	AB_AV1_FFMPEG_INPUT_OPTIONS	none	Space-separated FFmpeg input options, e.g. hwaccel=vaapi hwaccel_output_format=vaapi, each passed as --enc-input.