Fifth MSU MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Video Codec Comparison
For people, who make real research in field of high-end video compression
and professionally use videocodecs
MSU Graphics & Media Lab (Video Group)
Project head: Dr. Dmitriy Vatolin
Testing, charts, analysis: Dmitriy Kulikov, Alexander Parshin
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Codecs that Were Tested
Comparison Rules
Comparison Content
Codecs were analyzed separately in the following types of application:
"Video Conferences"
"Movies"
"HDTV"
Individual codecs' settings were used for each of usage areas.
Video sequences that were used in this comparison:
"Akiyo" (standard sequence)
"Foreman" (standard sequence)
"Paris" (standard sequence)
"Stefan" (standard sequence)
"Indiana Jones" (part of "Indiana Jones" movie)
"Battle" (part of "Terminator-2" movie)
"State Enemy" (part of "Enemy of the State" movie)
"Wendys" (uncompressed progressive)
"Mobile Calendar" (uncompressed progressive)
"Pedestrian Area" (uncompressed progressive)
"Stockholm" (uncompressed progressive)
"Troy" (part of "Troy" HDTV movie)
Different Comparison Versions
Short version of report is now available at website for free download
(80 pages, 86 figures). There are two types of customized versions:
Free Version
Mainly base analysis for Movie usage area
RD curves
Relative Bitrate/Relative Speed graphs
Absolute encoding speed charts
Bitrate handling graphs
Short analysis for Video Conferences and HDTV (only average graphs)
Some common analysis for all the usage areas
SSIM as objective quality metric mainly
Over-years comparison based on x264
One Pass High Qualty encdoing analysis description
Full Version (
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All from Free Users Edition
RD curves for all the usage areas
Absolute encoding speed charts for all the usage areas
Bitrate handling graphs for all the usage areas
All sequences for all the usage areas
SSIM and PSNR RD curves individually for all the sequences
Relative Bitrate/Relative Speed graphs individually for the all sequences
Per-frame analysis
Specific Analysis Methods (Synthetic sequences)
Full one Pass High Qualty encdoing analysis
All sequences, used in this comparison are provided with Pro version of report.
You can download all versions in
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section.
Download & Contribution
Dear video codec professionals!
You can support this comparison by buying Full Version of the report our report.
This contribution will help us:
- To continue this comparison without any participation
fees (this is important for x264 and XviD AVC next year)
- To avoid comparison sponsorship by codecs' developers
- To keep comparison detailed and useful
Thank you for your contribution in advance!
See also previous
Fourth Annual MSU MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Video Codec Comparison
Thanks
Special thanks to the following contributors of our previous comparisons
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12-May-2022
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