Thank you for being a warrior for AV1. The arguments for groups sticking with HEVC or worse, AVC are getting weaker and weaker every day. Groups that specifically and deliberately target watchers with low-power budget mobile devices can continue to do so on whatever codec works best for that. Also, if there was ever a prime candidate for demonstrating AV1's superior synthesized film-grain and compression ratio, it's this show. Even the HEVC releases are massively bloated. I will seed all of your batch releases for as long as I can.

Handbrake last version supports AV1, so, i'm joining in this season encoding in that format.

Glad to see some more people interested in releasing AV1 content. I invite you to join our discord server if you want to talk with other encoders.

With the right settings, Handbrake can be great at AV1, if it exposes the proper settings for the underlying AV1 encoder, svt-av1