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AV1R 0.1.2

Minimum coded extent handling

• GPU encoder now queries minCodedExtent from the Vulkan driver before opening the ffmpeg decode pipe. Input frames smaller than the hardware minimum (e.g. 170×196 vs driver minimum 320×128) are automatically scaled up to the minimum supported resolution.
• Vulkan context is initialized before the ffmpeg pipe so that the corrected dimensions are used for both decoding and encoding.
• Fixed segfault in av1r_vulkan_query_min_extent(): the VkVideoEncodeAV1CapabilitiesKHR structure was missing from the pNext chain passed to vkGetPhysicalDeviceVideoCapabilitiesKHR, causing RADV to write to an unmapped address.

CRF / QIndex mapping

• CRF-to-QIndex mapping changed from linear (crf * 4) to nonlinear LUT approximating aomenc --cq-level. Linear mapping gave qIndex 112 at CRF 28 which was too low for real compression on RADV. The new mapping gives qIndex 175 at CRF 28, matching expected AV1 compression ratios.
• On RADV, VBR mode is reported as supported but produces huge files; DISABLED mode (CQP) with constantQIndex is the only working path.

AV1R 0.1.1

Vulkan AV1 GPU Encoding — fully working

• GPU encoding now works end-to-end on AMD RDNA4 (RX 9070, RADV GFX1201) via Vulkan VK_KHR_VIDEO_ENCODE_AV1.
• Two-queue architecture: transfer queue (buffer→image upload) + encode queue (video encoding) with semaphore synchronization. Fixes VK_ERROR_DEVICE_LOST on GPUs where the encode queue has no TRANSFER capability.
• Correct NV12 upload: Y plane and UV plane copied as separate vkCmdCopyBufferToImage calls with proper bufferRowLength for each plane.
• Sequence Header OBU automatically prepended via vkGetEncodedVideoSessionParametersKHR — output plays in all players.
• Rate control: DISABLED mode (CQP) with constantQIndex derived from CRF (qIndex = crf * 4). VBR/CBR modes are reported as supported by RADV but have no effect; CQP is the only working mode.
• Audio track from the original file is preserved during IVF→MP4 muxing.
• Dynamic loading of all Vulkan Video KHR extension functions via vkGetInstanceProcAddr/vkGetDeviceProcAddr for compatibility with SDK < 1.3.290.

Multi-page TIFF support

• Multi-page TIFF stacks are now extracted to a temporary PNG sequence via the magick package before encoding. Both GPU and CPU paths support this.
• magick added to Suggests (required only for multi-page TIFF input).
• Image sequences (printf patterns like frame%06d.png) are passed to ffmpeg with -framerate for correct decoding.
• Tested on 510-frame 16-bit grayscale confocal microscopy TIFF stack (32.7 MB → 3.8 MB at CRF 1, 8.6x compression with quality preservation).

CRAN Fixes

• Removed redundant “A tool for” from Description.
• Single-quoted software and API names in Title and Description per CRAN policy.
• Replaced \dontrun{} with \donttest{} in all examples.
• Examples now write to tempdir() instead of user’s home filespace.

Bundled Headers

• Bundled Khronos VK_KHR_video_encode_av1 headers (src/vk_video/) — package no longer requires Vulkan SDK >= 1.3.290 at build time; builds against any Vulkan SDK >= 1.3.275 with the bundled polyfill.
• configure now detects bundled AV1 encode headers and enables GPU path automatically.

Initial Release

• CPU encoding via FFmpeg (libsvtav1 / libaom-av1).
• Automatic backend selection: GPU (Vulkan) → CPU (FFmpeg).
• Supports H.264, H.265, AVI/MJPEG, TIFF stacks, and TIFF sequences as input.
• convert_to_av1() for single-file and batch conversion.
• detect_backend(), vulkan_available(), vulkan_devices() for diagnostics.

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