Yes, the same people that are responsible for Vorbis and Opus have made a “fast and safe” AV1 encoder. I had no clue this existed and I thought libaom was the only AV1 encoder available… apparently not!
Written in RUST too! Though it’s still single threaded, it’s more optimized than libaom.
Edit: Just remembered SVT-AV1, that might be more for multi-socket Xeon Platinum/EPYC systems. It relies more on massive multithreading rather than single thread optimizations.
Rust prevents common programming errors like buffer overflows by imposing strict rules on the program. The program can still be buggy leak memory, but at least nobody’s gonna take over your computer with a malicious video stream.