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brew install aom v3.14.1 BSD-2-Clause

C library for encoding and decoding AV1 video streams.

Why you might care

AV1 is a modern, royalty-free video codec offering better compression than H.264 or H.265. libaom is the reference implementation and primary library for AV1 work; it's a build dependency for ffmpeg, VLC, and other media tools that need AV1 support. Use this if you're building video software or need high-quality, efficient compression.

Categories

library video-tool compression

Alternatives

libvpx libx264 libx265 OpenH264
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Runtime dependencies

libvmaf

Build dependencies

cmake pkgconf

Links

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