# Encode Wiki

Canonical URL: https://encode.wiki/
Content version: ca42e61ede0a24f789d7287a0001244ad22f4abf
Status: current
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
Checksum (SHA-256): 9e613cece6d5a8d2bb5b23e32618e30ac60b85a10e5b48d58efba49eee028a74

## Explore Encode Wiki

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  <LinkCard
    title="Start here"
    description="The core ideas and vocabulary: codecs, containers, lossy and lossless compression, artifacts."
    href="/start-here/"
  />
  <LinkCard
    title="Guides"
    description="Step-by-step encoding with FFmpeg, x264 and SVT-AV1, plus audio, subtitles and HDR."
    href="/guides/"
  />
  <LinkCard
    title="Codecs and tools"
    description="Formats, encoders, filters, players and utilities, and how they compare."
    href="/codecs/"
  />
  <LinkCard
    title="Articles"
    description="Experiments, benchmarks, explanations and project news."
    href="/articles/"
  />
  <LinkCard
    title="Ask AI"
    description="Ask encoding questions answered from the wiki's pages."
    href="https://ask.encode.wiki"
  />
</CardGrid>

Encode Wiki is a community project that grew out of the AV1 Community Contributors' Codec Wiki.
Pages imported from it keep their original source and attribution.