@remotion/renderer: add AV1 codec support (#6771)

* Add AV1 codec support to renderer and CLI

Co-authored-by: Igor Samokhovets <samohovets@users.noreply.github.com>

* Add AV1 WebM and Opus compatibility

Co-authored-by: Igor Samokhovets <samohovets@users.noreply.github.com>

* Update Cargo.toml

* Rebuild compositor binaries and update Cargo.lock

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Update Cargo.toml

* update binareis

* update docs

* another docs sweep

* be more correct about linux

* shorten AV1 availability docs per PR review

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* warn users about slow AV1 encoding speed when codec is selected

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* shorten AV1 warning message

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Co-authored-by: Cursor Agent <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Co-authored-by: Igor Samokhovets <samohovets@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Jonny Burger <jonathanburger11@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: 4 people

packages/cli/src/image-formats.ts

@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ export const getVideoImageFormat = ({
 		codec === 'h264-mkv' ||
 		codec === 'h264-ts' ||
 		codec === 'h265' ||
+		codec === 'av1' ||
 		codec === 'vp8' ||
 		codec === 'vp9' ||
 		codec === 'prores' ||

packages/cli/src/test/codec.test.ts

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ describe('Codec tests setCodec', () => {
 		'h265',
 		'vp8',
 		'vp9',
+		'av1',
 		undefined,
 	];
 	validCodecInputs.forEach((entry) =>

packages/cli/src/test/final-output-codec.test.ts

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ describe('Codec tests valid codec input', () => {
 		'h265',
 		'vp8',
 		'vp9',
+		'av1',
 		'mp3',
 		'aac',
 		'wav',

packages/cli/src/test/image-formats.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+import {expect, test} from 'bun:test';
+import {getVideoImageFormat} from '../image-formats';
+
+test('returns jpeg for av1 codec', () => {
+	expect(getVideoImageFormat({codec: 'av1', uiImageFormat: null})).toBe('jpeg');
+});
+
+test('returns png if codec is undefined', () => {
+	expect(getVideoImageFormat({codec: undefined, uiImageFormat: null})).toBe(
+		'png',
+	);
+});