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Welcome to Encode Wiki
Why this project exists and how the initial Codec Wiki material will evolve here.
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Read long-form encoding explanations, experiments, benchmarks, and project updates. Published articles expose the same source, status, and licensing metadata as the documentation.
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Deep Dive into SVT-AV1's Evolution (Part 2): Encoder Parameters Revisited
Let's discover some new (and revisit some old) SVT-AV1 parameters!
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Deep Dive into SVT-AV1's Evolution (Part 1): Presets Analysis from v2.0 to v3.0
Let's look back at how SVT-AV1's presets evolved for the past year or so.
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Fast Computation of SSIMULACRA2 on GPUs: A Performance Evaluation
Turbo-metrics offers GPU acceleration for popular video quality metrics. Let's put it to the test!
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Better late than never: SVT-AV1 v2.2.x Deep Dive
Historical SVT-AV1 2.1.2 versus 2.2.1 benchmarks, including explicit limits on study-specific metric pooling.
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Codec Wiki: One Year Later
The original Codec Wiki community anniversary report from July 2024, preserved with historical analytics context.
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AV1 for Dummies
A 2024 AV1 introduction with dated tool ratings and editorially corrected guidance.
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Observing SVT-AV1 v2.1.0's improvements: A New Deep Dive
SVT-AV1 2.1.0 just released, how does it compare to the previous version?
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Encoding Animation with SVT-AV1: A Deep Dive
Historical December 2023 SVT-AV1 1.8.0 animation benchmarks, with explicit corpus and version limits.
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Embedding the Un-Embeddable
Historical October 2023 Discord embedding observations, with current metadata and playback limitations made explicit.
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AV1 Encoding for Dummies
A historical 2023 Av1an and aom-av1-lavish recipe with corrected explanations.
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Reducing Image Load Online
A big part of understanding any multimedia codec technology is knowing the application for such technology. For images, a big use case is web delivery.