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SVT-AV1

SVT-AV1 is available in the NetActuate Marketplace as a one-click, open-source appliance you can deploy into any NetActuate PoP. High-performance open-source AV1 encoder (SVT-AV1 and FFmpeg), SSH-driven. It is grouped under the Media & Streaming category.

What It Does​

SVT-AV1 (Scalable Video Technology for AV1) is a high-performance, production-grade open-source AV1 encoder developed under the Alliance for Open Media. This appliance gives you the SvtAv1EncApp command-line encoder plus FFmpeg with the libsvtav1 encoder on a ready-to-use VM, so you can encode to AV1 at the edge without building a toolchain yourself.

Key features

  • SvtAv1EncApp, the fast multithreaded AV1 CLI encoder, built from the upstream v3.1.2 source
  • FFmpeg with libsvtav1 for encoding any input (ffmpeg -c:v libsvtav1) and dav1d for AV1 decode/inspection
  • Preset-based quality/speed control (--preset 0..13) and CRF/VBR/CBR rate control
  • Built portably with SVT-AV1 runtime CPU dispatch: it automatically uses the best instruction set your VM's CPU reports (from C/SSE up to AVX-512) and will not crash with an illegal-instruction error on a baseline vCPU
  • A first-boot self-check runs a REAL test encode and reports encoder health on the landing page and /health endpoint, so you know the encoder actually works on this VM
  • A tiny sample clip is bundled to try immediately

Use cases

  • Batch or on-demand AV1 encoding of video assets close to your storage or origin
  • A dedicated AV1 encode worker driven over SSH or your own automation
  • Evaluating AV1 quality/bitrate against your existing H.264/HEVC pipeline

Why run it on the NetActuate edge Running the encoder in a PoP near your media keeps large source files off the public internet, shortens the path to your storage, and gives you dedicated CPU for encoding on infrastructure you control.

There is no web application: this is a headless CLI encoder. SSH into the instance and run SvtAv1EncApp or ffmpeg. The instance's landing page (and /health) exist only to document usage and confirm the encoder is installed and runs on this VM's CPU.

Vendor and Project​

SVT-AV1 is an open-source project, offered here under the Open Source listing with best-effort community support.

NetActuate supports the underlying infrastructure. Application-level support follows the listing SLA class (open-source, best effort).

Sizing​

vCPURAMDisk
Minimum22 GB20 GB
Recommended88 GB50 GB

No VPU (hardware acceleration) is required for this appliance. Choose a size at deploy based on your expected load.

Configuration Fields​

When you deploy, you provide these fields. They are written into the appliance at first boot.

FieldRequiredDefaultNotes
Landing/health portNo8080Port for the co-located landing/instructions page and the /health endpoint, published on the instance IP (default 8080). SVT-AV1 is a headless CLI encoder driven over SSH; this is not an application port.

Using the Appliance​

Encode to AV1 in minutes

  1. Confirm the encoder is healthy. Browse to http://YOUR_VM_IP:8080/ for the instructions page, or http://YOUR_VM_IP:8080/health for the JSON self-check result. A healthy appliance ran a real test encode at boot and reports "svt-av1-encoder-ok".
  2. SSH in and encode. There is no login or web UI. SSH to the instance and run the CLI encoder on a raw .y4m: SvtAv1EncApp -i in.y4m -b out.ivf --preset 6 A bundled sample is at /usr/share/svt-av1/sample.y4m (also at http://YOUR_VM_IP:8080/sample.y4m).
  3. Or use FFmpeg to encode any source with libsvtav1: ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -c:v libsvtav1 -preset 6 -crf 30 -c:a copy output.mkv

Tune throughput vs. quality with --preset (0 = slowest/best quality, 13 = fastest). The landing/health port is set by mkt_landing_port (default 8080).

FAQ​

Is there a software license fee? No. SVT-AV1 is open source and free to run. You pay only for the NetActuate infrastructure and bandwidth.

Where is the web interface? On port 8080 at path /health by default.

Who supports it? NetActuate operates the underlying infrastructure. The application itself is community-supported open source (best-effort SLA class).

Version and Changelog​

VersionStatusReleased
3.1.2Current (default)2026-07-14

Deploy​

Need Help?​

Contact support@netactuate.com or open a support ticket from the portal.