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MSU Video Codecs Comparison 2022
Part 6: 4K
Seventeen Annual Video-Codecs Comparison by MSU
Video group head:
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Dr. Dmitriy Vatolin
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Project head:
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Dr. Dmitriy Kulikov
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Measurements, analysis:
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Nickolay Safonov,
Ekaterina Shumitskaya,
Nikita Alutis,
Mikhail Voronin
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compression.ru
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Lomonosov
Moscow State University (MSU)
Graphics and Media Lab
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Dubna International
State University
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Institute for Information
Transmission Problems,
Russian Academy of Science
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News
- 17.10.2023
Release of the comparison
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Results
- The places below are given only for quality scores, not taking encoding speed into account
- Encoders with scores closer than 1% share one place
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Slow (1 fps)
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Medium (5 fps)
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Fast (30 fps)
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Best quality
(YUV-SSIM 6:1:1)
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Tencent266 v0.2.2 (H.266),
Tencent TVC encoder (Private)
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Tencent266 v0.2.1 (H.266)
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TencentAVS3 (AVS3)
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Tencent266 v0.2.2 (H.266)
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Tencent266 v0.2.1 (H.266)
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VVenC (H.266)
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Tencent TXAV1 encoder (AV1)
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SVT-AV1 (AV1)
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Reference x265 (H.265)
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Best quality
(YUV-PSNR avg.MSE 6:1:1)
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Tencent266 v0.2.1 (H.266)
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Tencent TVC encoder (private)
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Tencent266 v0.2.2 (H.266)
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Tencent266 v0.2.1 (H.266)
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Tencent266 v0.2.2 (H.266)
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SVT-AV1 (AV1)
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Tencent TXAV1 encoder (AV1)
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SVT-AV1 (AV1)
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Reference x265 (H.265)
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Best quality
(YUV-VMAF
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0.6.1 6:1:1)
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Tencent TVC encoder (private)
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Tencent266 v0.2.1 (H.266)
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Tencent266 v0.2.2 (H.266)
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Tencent266 v0.2.1 (H.266)
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Tencent266 v0.2.2 (H.266)
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SVT-AV1 (AV1)
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Tencent TXAV1 encoder (AV1)
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SVT-AV1 (AV1)
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Reference x265 (H.265)
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Best quality
(Y-VMAF 0.6.1)
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Tencent TVC encoder (Private), Tencent266 v0.2.2 (H.266)
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Tencent266 v0.2.1 (H.266)
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TencentAVS3 (AVS3)
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Tencent266 v0.2.2 (H.266)
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Tencent266 v0.2.1 (H.266)
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SVT-AV1 (AV1)
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Tencent TXAV1 encoder (AV1)
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SVT-AV1 (AV1)
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Reference x265 (H.265)
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Best quality
(Y-VMAF-NEG 0.6.1)
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Tencent266 v0.2.2 (H.266)
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Tencent TVC encoder (Private)
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Tencent266 v0.2.1 (H.266)
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Tencent266 v0.2.2 (H.266)
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Tencent266 v0.2.1 (H.266)
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SVT-AV1 (AV1)
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Tencent TXAV1 encoder (AV1)
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SVT-AV1 (AV1)
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Reference x265 (H.265)
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*
- YUV-VMAF was calculated as VMAF for all colour-planes (Y, U, V) following the same methodology as YUV-SSIM, YUV-PSNR and other metrics.
The biggest number of codecs took part in comparison of Slow encoding (1 fps). The winners vary for different objective quality metrics. The participants were rated using BSQ-rate (enhanced BD-rate) scores [1].
[1] A. Zvezdakova, D. Kulikov, S. Zvezdakov, D. Vatolin, "BSQ-rate: a new approach for video-codec performance comparison and drawbacks of current solutions," 2020.
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Enterprise
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Number of test sequences
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3
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14
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Test video descriptions
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Basic codec info
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Objective metrics
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Only 5 metrics
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20+ objective metrics
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Test videos download
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Encoders presets description
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HTML report
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55 interactive charts
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9000+ interacive charts
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Price
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Free
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950 USD
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HTML report (ZIP)
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You will receive enterprise versions of all 2022 reports (FullHD, Subjective, 4K)
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Participated codecs
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Codec name
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Use cases
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Standard
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Version
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1
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x264 (H.264)
x264 (H.264) project
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Slow (1 fps),
Medium (5 fps),
Fast (30 fps)
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H.264/AVC
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r3065-ae03d92, Windows
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2
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Reference x265 (H.265)
MulticoreWare, Inc.
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Slow (1 fps),
Medium (5 fps),
Fast (30 fps)
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H.265/HEVC
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3.5+1-f0c1022b6, Windows
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3
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SVT-HEVC (H.265)
Open Visual Cloud
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Slow (1 fps),
Medium (5 fps),
Fast (30 fps)
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H.265/HEVC
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1.5.1, Windows
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4
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Tencent266 v0.2.1 (H.266)
Tencent
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Slow (1 fps),
Medium (5 fps)
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H.266/VVC
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v0.2.1, Linux
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5
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Tencent266 v0.2.2 (H.266)
Tencent
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Slow (1 fps),
Medium (5 fps)
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H.266/VVC
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v0.2.2, Linux
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6
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VVenC (H.266)
Fraunhofer HHI
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Slow (1 fps),
Medium (5 fps)
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H.266/VVC
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1.6.1, Linux
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7
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SVT-AV1 (AV1)
Open Visual Cloud
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Slow (1 fps),
Medium (5 fps),
Fast (30 fps)
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AV1
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v1.3.0, Windows
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8
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Tencent TXAV1 encoder (AV1)
Tencent
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Fast (30 fps)
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AV1
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1.3.5, Linux
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9
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TencentAVS3 (AVS3)
Tencent
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Slow (1 fps)
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AVS3
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0.2, Linux
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10
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Tencent TVC encoder (Private)
Tencent
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Slow (1 fps)
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0.1.1, Linux
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Comparison Rules
4K codec testing objectives
The main goal of this report is the presentation of a comparative evaluation
of the quality of new and existing codecs using
objective measures of assessment. The comparison was done using settings
provided by the developers of each codec. Nevertheless, we required all
presets to satisfy minimum speed requirement on the particular use case.
The main task of the comparison is to analyze different encoders for the
task of transcoding video – e.g., compressing video for personal use.
Test Hardware Characteristics
- CPU:
Intel Core i7 12700K (Alder Lake)
- SSD:
1Tb
- RAM:
4x16GB (64GB)
- OS:
Windows 11 x64, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
For this platform we considered three key use cases with different speed
requirements:
- Online – 4K@30fps
- Online – 4K@5fps
- Offline – 4K@1fps
See more on
Call For Codecs 2022
page
Videos
Videos for testing set were chosen from new MSU video collection 2021via a voting among comparison participants, organizers and an independend expert.
Number of videos in MSU video collection
Year
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# FullHD videos
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# FullHD samples
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# 4K videos
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# 4K samples
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Total # of videos
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Total # of samples
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2016
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3
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7
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882
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2902
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885
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2909
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2017
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1996
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4638
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1544
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4561
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3540
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9299
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2018
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4342
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10330
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1946
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5503
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6288
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15833
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2020
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4945
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12402
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2091
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6016
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7036
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18418
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Bitrate distribution of videos in MSU video collection
Final video set consists of 51 sequences including new videos from Vimeo and
media.xiph.org derf's collection
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Descriptions of all test videos are presented in a separate PDF provided with the report.
Codec Analysis and Tuning for Codec Developers and Codec Users
Computer Graphics and Multimedia Laboratory of Moscow State University:
- 17+ years working in the area of video codec analysis and tuning
using objective quality metrics and subjective comparisons.
- 30+ reports of video codec comparisons and analysis (H.265, H.264,
AV1, VP9, MPEG-4, MPEG-2, decoders' error recovery).
- Methods and algorithms for codec comparison and analysis
development, separate codec's features and codec's options
analysis.
Strong and Weak Points of Your Codec
- Deep encoder parts analysis (ME, RC on GOP, mode decision, etc).
- Weak and strong points for your encoder and complete information
about encoding quality on different content types.
- Encoding Quality improvement by the pre and post filtering
(including technologies licensing).
Independent Codec Estimation Comparing to Other Codecs for Different Use-cases
- Comparative analysis of your encoder and other encoders.
- We have direct contact with many codec developers.
- You will know place of your encoder between other newest well-known
encoders (compare encoding quality, speed, bitrate handling, etc.).
Encoder Features Implementation Optimality Analysis
We perform encoder features effectiveness (speed/quality trade-off) analysis
that could lead up to 30% increase in the speed/quality characteristics of
your codec. We can help you to tune your codec and find best encoding
parameters.
Thanks
Special thanks to the following contributors of our previous comparisons
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