Encoding Discussion Megathread (ffmpeg, Handbrake, AV1, etc...)

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Hahaha, "more precise like OP's"! I love that! I'm running my stuff in the background (a precious show to me that I have in 4K HDR that took me ages to hunt down) and the compression to visual quality I'm getting with AV1 is astouding. The only issue is I'm wondering what goddamn file is being converted because ab-av1 doesn't tell you anything.

Well if I weren't a ding-dong, I'd use echo. Like you. And maybe suppress the output from ffmpeg because it's so flippin' noisy with "HEY DID YOU KNOW I WAS COMPILED WITH ALL THESE LIBS AND HEY DID YOU ALSO KNOW THAT I CAN TELL YOU ABOUT THE FILE THAT YOU MAPPED PRECISELY BEFORE UNDERTAKING THIS CONVERSION AND HEY DID YOU ALSO KNOW..." It's like I need a pillow and a flexible sense of morality...