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 & large 4k smartphone videos, and you can fly in style with a beautiful libadwaita interface.
Take off with Aviator!
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0.7.031 Aug 2025
We're back with another Aviator release, featuring major dependency updates for improved performance.
- We've switched to a new encoder called SVT-AV1-HDR, which should be significantly faster than SVT-AV1-PSY.
- Updated FFmpeg to version 8.0
- Updated GNOME runtime to version 48
- Updated LLVM SDK to version 20
0.6.410 Feb 2025
We're back with another Aviator release, featuring some new translations and an SVT-AV1-PSY update!
SVT-AV1-PSY v2.3.0-B improvements relevant to Aviator:
- "Perceptual Tuning" now enables an option called psy-rd, or Psychovisual Rate Distortion, for better visual performance
Other changes:
- Added Georgian translation
0.6.330 Oct 2024
We're back with another Aviator release, featuring small bug fixes and an SVT-AV1-PSY update!
Bug fixes:
- Fixed the hicolor icon mislabeled as scalable
- Fixed audio bitrate resetting when opening a new file
SVT-AV1-PSY v2.3.0 improvements relevant to Aviator:
- Encoding with odd (non-mod2) dimensions is now possible
- Encoding at resolutions lower than 64x64 is now possible, down to as small as 4x4
- Improved color reproduction & overall picture quality when "Perceptual Tuning" is disabled
- General perceptual fidelity improvements with "Perceptual Tuning" enabled
- General performance improvements, especially on ARM platforms
- Various bug fixes
Other changes:
- Removed sharpness usage when "Perceptual Tuning" is enabled
- Updated FFmpeg to version 7.1
- Updated llvm to version 19 for project compilation
- Updated to GNOME SDK 47
0.6.221 Aug 2024
A new SVT-AV1-PSY release, and some new translations thanks to the community!
First, Aviator changes:
- Added French translation
- Added German translation
- Updated to FFmpeg 7.0.2 & SVT-AV1-PSY v2.2.0
- Added a donation link to the About dialogue under Details
SVT-AV1-PSY (v2.2.0) updates relevant to Aviator:
- Better 10-bit processing on Preset 3 & below
- Presets 0 through 8 have been sped up by roughly 15%
- More ARM optimizations that translate to an additional ~15% speedup with 10-bit 4k output
- General visual fidelity improvements