aom

Install command:
brew install aom

Codec library for encoding and decoding AV1 video streams

https://aomedia.googlesource.com/aom

License: BSD-2-Clause

Development: Pull requests

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/aom.json

Formula code: aom.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

macOS on
Apple Silicon
golden gate ✅
tahoe ✅
sequoia ✅
Linux ARM64 ✅
x86_64 ✅

Current versions:

stable ✅ 3.15.3
head ⚡️ HEAD

Depends on:

libvmaf 3.2.1 Perceptual video quality assessment based on multi-method fusion

Depends on when building from source:

cmake 4.4.5 Cross-platform make
pkgconf 3.0.10 Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit

Binaries: aomdec, aomenc

GitHub Packages downloads:

Last 30 days1,177,311
Downloads55,596,177
Analytics install events (30 days)86,698
Downloads / install events (30 days)13.6×

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Analytics:

30 days90 days365 days
Installs86,673190,404775,510
Installs (--HEAD)2549210
Installs on Request12,18326,014115,537
Installs on Request (--HEAD)2345197
Build Errors38