TOtosh·Dec 30, 2025Submission
AB-AV1-GUI: A Simple Python GUI for AB-AV1 Conversion of Video Files to AV1
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AB-AV1-GUI
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Loufe / AB-AV1-GUI
AB-AV1-GUI
A simple Python GUI for AB-AV1 conversion of video files to AV1, minimizing file size while maintaining quality. Includes stats, saved config, and more.
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A simple Python GUI for AB-AV1 conversion of video files to AV1, minimizing file size while maintaining quality. Includes stats, saved config, and more.
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| Dec 21 | 2025-12-21 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-12-22 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Dec 22 | 2025-12-22 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-12-23 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| Dec 25 | 2025-12-25 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-12-26 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 26 | 2025-12-26 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-12-27 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| Dec 30 | 2025-12-30 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-12-31 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesI've been transcoding my media collection leaving my PC on overnight over months, it's great. My biggest issue is client support for native playback of AV1, naturally.
For what it's worth, AB-AV1 [1] is a pretty awesome tool written in rust which compares random samples from a file at different parameters based on their VMAF score [2] (algorithm from Netflix for human-perceived visual likeness), choosing optimal parameters to save as much space as possible with the loss you're willing to stomach, on a file-by-file basis.
Small plug: I made a nice little python GUI wrapper for ab-av1 [3].
[1] - https://github.com/alexheretic/ab-av1
[2] - https://github.com/Netflix/vmaf
[3] - https://github.com/Loufe/AB-AV1-GUI
In What I learned about deploying AV1 from two deployers