Foxws

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.

Latest release
2.0.1
Requires
PHP ^8.4
Laravel
12.x / 13.x
Runtime
ab-av1, FFmpeg
Licence
MIT
$ composer require foxws/laravel-ab-av1
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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.

use Foxws\AbAv1\Facades\AbAv1;

AbAv1::fromDisk('media')
    ->open('videos/clip.mp4')
    ->withMinVMAF(95)
    ->export()
    ->toDisk('s3')
    ->toPath('encoded/clip.mp4')
    ->save();

Features

  • Encode at a target quality (VMAF or XPSNR) instead of guessing a CRF.
  • Read input from, and write output to, any Laravel disk: local, S3 or your own.
  • Use svt-av1, hardware encoders like VAAPI, or any other encoder FFmpeg supports.
  • Test-encode a sample first, or compare the quality of two files.
  • Listen to events when an encode starts, finishes or fails.

Requirements

  • PHP 8.4 or higher
  • Laravel 12 or 13
  • ab-av1, with FFmpeg built with svt-av1 and libvmaf

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