Thread #1657 | technology

I found a good SVT-AV1 fork for high quality Anime encodes and made a DRAG&DROP windows batch script for it that includes SSIMULACRA2 scoring.
I also compiled the fssimu2 project for windows otherwise you have to manually convert video frames to PNG and math out the average by hand.

@echo off & setlocal
set "input=%~1" & set "outbase=%~dpn1" & set "stfu=-hide_banner -loglevel fatal"

set "av1base=--lookahead 32 --preset 4 --rc 1 --max-qp 60"
set "psy=--ac-bias 0.5 --enable-dlf 3 --noise-adaptive-filtering 4"
set "bt701=--color-primaries 1 --transfer-characteristics 1 --matrix-coefficients 1"

echo Welcome to the mini Essential SVT-AV1 2 pass drag and drop encoder, SSIMULACRA2 included at the end

:ASK
set /p bitrate="Enter 2 pass kbps bitrate: " && set /a bitrate=bitrate 2>nul || goto ASK
if %bitrate% LSS 1 (goto ASK) else if %bitrate% GTR 10000 goto ASK
echo:

ffmpeg %stfu% -i %input% -map 0:v:0 -pix_fmt yuv420p10le -f yuv4mpegpipe -strict -1 - | ^
SvtAv1EncApp-4.0.1-Essential-Windows_Optimized -i - %av1base% --tbr %bitrate% %psy% %bt701% --pass 1 -b temp1pass.ivf
ffmpeg %stfu% -i %input% -map 0:v:0 -pix_fmt yuv420p10le -f yuv4mpegpipe -strict -1 - | ^
SvtAv1EncApp-4.0.1-Essential-Windows_Optimized -i - %av1base% --tbr %bitrate% %psy% %bt701% --pass 2 -b temp2pass.ivf

ffmpeg %stfu% -i temp2pass.ivf -c:v copy -an -y "%outbase%_%bitrate%_kbps_2pass_essential-av1.webm"
echo: && echo --- calculating SSIMULACRA2 score of "%outbase%_%bitrate%_kbps_2pass_essential-av1.webm" --- && echo:
ffmpeg %stfu% -i %input% -pix_fmt yuv420p input.y4m && timeout /t 5 /nobreak
ffmpeg %stfu% -i "%outbase%_%bitrate%_kbps_2pass_essential-av1.webm" -pix_fmt yuv420p output.y4m
timeout /t 5 /nobreak && fssimu2 input.y4m output.y4m

del temp1pass.ivf temp2pass.ivf svtav1_2pass.log input.y4m output.y4m && pause

https://github.com/nekotrix/SVT-AV1-Essential/releases/tag/v4.0.1-Essential
https://github.com/gianni-rosato/fssimu2

!USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! !USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!

Here's the windows .exe fssimu2, you're going to need all of those .dll inside when placing them in PATH btw, I don't know how to compile them together unfortunately.
All I did was modify build.zig/dependencies from the fssimu2 project files and generate a windows executable through MSYS2 and bundle all the .dll files it needs in a .zip.
However I can't guarantee how reliable/stable this thing will be since it's fssimu2 hasn't even hit version 1.0 yet. I also got a false positive on an A/V scan.

https://files.catbox.moe/iot2sr.zip

!USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! !USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!

@echo off & setlocal
set "input=%~1" & set "outbase=%~dpn1" & set "stfu=-hide_banner -loglevel fatal"

set "av1base=--lookahead 32 --preset 4 --rc 1 --max-qp 60"
set "psy=--ac-bias 0.5 --enable-dlf 3 --noise-adaptive-filtering 4"
set "bt701=--color-primaries 1 --transfer-characteristics 1 --matrix-coefficients 1"

echo Welcome to the mini Essential SVT-AV1 2 pass drag and drop encoder, SSIMULACRA2 included at the end

:ASK
set /p bitrate="Enter 2 pass kbps bitrate: " && set /a bitrate=bitrate 2>nul || goto ASK
if %bitrate% LSS 1 (goto ASK) else if %bitrate% GTR 10000 goto ASK
echo:

ffmpeg %stfu% -i %input% -map 0:v:0 -pix_fmt yuv420p10le -f yuv4mpegpipe -strict -1 - | ^
SvtAv1EncApp-4.0.1-Essential-Windows_Optimized -i - %av1base% --tbr %bitrate% %psy% %bt701% --pass 1 -b temp1pass.ivf
ffmpeg %stfu% -i %input% -map 0:v:0 -pix_fmt yuv420p10le -f yuv4mpegpipe -strict -1 - | ^
SvtAv1EncApp-4.0.1-Essential-Windows_Optimized -i - %av1base% --tbr %bitrate% %psy% %bt701% --pass 2 -b temp2pass.ivf

ffmpeg %stfu% -i temp2pass.ivf -c:v copy -an -y "%outbase%_%bitrate%_kbps_2pass_essential-av1.webm"
echo: && echo --- calculating SSIMULACRA2 score of "%outbase%_%bitrate%_kbps_2pass_essential-av1.webm" --- && echo:
ffmpeg %stfu% -i %input% -pix_fmt yuv420p input.y4m && timeout /t 5 /nobreak
ffmpeg %stfu% -i "%outbase%_%bitrate%_kbps_2pass_essential-av1.webm" -pix_fmt yuv420p output.y4m
timeout /t 5 /nobreak && fssimu2 input.y4m output.y4m

del temp1pass.ivf temp2pass.ivf svtav1_2pass.log input.y4m output.y4m && pause

https://github.com/nekotrix/SVT-AV1-Essential/releases/tag/v4.0.1-Essential
https://github.com/gianni-rosato/fssimu2