av1an Plugin

Av1an is a Rust encoding orchestrator: it splits input into scenes, encodes chunks in parallel across workers, and muxes the result. It drives SVT-AV1, rav1e, aomenc, vpxenc, x264, x265 and supports resumable encodes and per-scene VMAF target quality.

Commands

Encoding

• av1an video encode — Parallel encode: sc av1an video encode -i in.mkv -o out.mkv -e svt-av1 -w 8

General

• av1an self version — Print av1an version
• av1an _ _ — Passthrough to av1an CLI

Usage Examples

• "Encode this video to AV1 using all cores"
• "Re-encode with target VMAF quality 93"
• "Resume an interrupted av1an encode"

Installation

cargo install av1an  # also needs ffmpeg + encoder (e.g. svt-av1)

Examples

av1an -i input.mkv -o output.mkv -e svt-av1 -w 8
av1an -i in.mkv -o out.mkv -e svt-av1 --target-quality 93 --resume
av1an --help

Key Features

• Scene-based chunked parallelism
• Resumable encodes (--resume)
• Per-scene target quality (VMAF)
• Works with any supported encoder