Name: Aviator
Author: Gianni Rosato

Aviator enables simple, easy-to-use video encoding for the world's most
 advanced open video codec, AV1.
 Encode your favorite media into super efficient files with incredible
 quality per bit, powered by the SVT-AV1 production encoder with Opus for
 audio encoding. The sky's the limit for your old home video collection &amp;
 large 4k smartphone videos, and you can fly in style with a beautiful
 libadwaita interface.
 Take off with Aviator!

Aviator

A new SVT-AV1-PSY release, and some new translations thanks to the community!
 First, Aviator changes:
 <ul>
 <li>Added French translation</li>
 <li>Added German translation</li>
 <li>Updated to FFmpeg 7.0.2 &amp; SVT-AV1-PSY v2.2.0</li>
 <li>Added a donation link to the About dialogue under Details</li>
 </ul>
 SVT-AV1-PSY (v2.2.0) updates relevant to Aviator:
 <ul>
 <li>Better 10-bit processing on Preset 3 &amp; below</li>
 <li>Presets 0 through 8 have been sped up by roughly 15%</li>
 <li>More ARM optimizations that translate to an additional ~15% speedup with 10-bit 4k output</li>
 <li>General visual fidelity improvements</li>
 </ul>

A new SVT-AV1-PSY release, plus new filtering options for telecined &amp; interlaced videos!
 First, Aviator changes:
 <ul>
 <li>Updated to GNOME SDK 46</li>
 <li>Added a deinterlace toggle for converting interlaced source media to progressive scan</li>
 <li>Updated to FFmpeg 7.0 &amp; SVT-AV1-PSY v2.1.0</li>
 <li>Progress bar indicator now features fractional increments to better indicate progress for slow AV1 encodes</li>
 </ul>
 SVT-AV1-PSY (v2.1.0) updates relevant to Aviator:
 <ul>
 <li>Preset 6 is now redundant with Preset 7. We won't skip it in the slider, but just be aware they're the same now</li>
 <li>Presets 0, 3, 5, &amp; 6 have been sped up by 12-40% with little to no quality penalty</li>
 <li>Presets 11 &amp; 12 feature up to 2% more compression efficiency</li>
 <li>Additional ARM optimizations</li>
 <li>Lowered the minimum preset for 8K encoding from 8 to 2</li>
 </ul>

Exciting SVT-AV1-PSY improvements and an awesome audio fix that's been a long time coming!
 First, Aviator changes:
 <ul>
 <li>Migrated to libadwaita 1.4+ widgets</li>
 <li>Fixed the notorious 5.1(side) audio encoding error</li>
 <li>Minor code clean-up</li>
 </ul>
 SVT-AV1-PSY (v2.0.0rc2) updates relevant to Aviator:
 <ul>
 <li>Updated variance boost to improve encoding efficiency and eliminate rare flickering artifacts</li>
 <li>Variance boost refactored to work with native q-step ratios</li>
 <li>Preset -1 is twice as fast, &amp; presets 0 through 8 are up to 28% faster</li>
 <li>Presets 9 through 12 are 1-4% more efficient</li>
 <li>Additional ARM optimizations</li>
 <li>Bug fixes</li>
 </ul>

TL;DR, mostly SVT-AV1-PSY improvements. But still exciting, nonetheless!
 Open GOP toggle has been renamed to oGOP
 Speed -1 and -2 are now supported with a warning when you go below Speed 3. Speed -2 can take over 8 hours for a minute of video on a Ryzen 9
 New "Perceptual Tuning" enables some new SVT-AV1-PSY features by default to improve visual fidelity at the cost of metric scores
 "-mapping_family 1" is now enabled in libopus, so surround encodes will benefit from Opus's multichannel optimizations
 Modified SVT-AV1 defaults, notably re-enabling temporal filtering by default

Your Video Copilot: AV1/OPUS Video Encoder

Aviator

Your Video Copilot: AV1/OPUS Video Encoder

Changes in version 0.6.2

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