Kap: AV1 support

[jsejcksn]

Is support for the AV1 codec (in WebM container) on the roadmap? Is it even possible since Kap uses Aperture (and thus AVFoundation)?

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[sindresorhus]

We already use ffmpeg for WebM, so when ffmpeg supports AV1, we could too. I think it's way too early though. I haven't seen any adoption of AV1 yet. I'm not even sure if it's production-ready.

[jsejcksn]

@sindresorhus Ah, cool. I was wondering how it included WebM since it's not part of AVFoundation.

[sindresorhus]

FFmpeg 4 supports AV1, so once https://github.com/kribblo/node-ffmpeg-installer/issues/11 is fixed, we can add support.

[kribblo]

node-ffmpeg-installer has been updated now if you want to try it.

[sindresorhus]

Thanks, @kribblo! Will do :)

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[sindresorhus]

We should also support .avifs, which is animated AVIF, the equivalent to GIF, but with much better quality and decoding performance.

We're blocked by ffmpeg support though: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/7621

More info: https://twitter.com/mathias/status/1248135249663574017

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