We are always open to comparing of new codecs, but sometimes the developers are not interested in participation (lack of time, active development stage, etc.). The second part is the decoder this part resides on the viewer’s computer as an add-in to decode the video inside the container. A codec consists two partsthe encoder, which is what you use while you’re encoding the video from your timeline or file. 1) We generally test codecs whose developers send us presets and binary.Ģ) In the report you see only public results, but there are also a large number of private codecs that do not publish the result.ģ) As an academic organization, sometimes we are limited in purchasing a newer hardware. The second part of a video is the codec inside the format. You guys clearly have the budget, if you're going to do codec comparison then at least to a comprehensive comparison, do a real shoot out not just pick and choose a handful of encoders.ĭisappointing. Why not include Main Concept HEVC or Apple HEVC? Why didn't you guys test any of the hardware encoders? Your test system uses a Coffee Lake, you could have tested Quick Sync HW MPEG-2/AVC/HEVC/HEVC 10-bit via QS and the above as well HW VP8/VP9 via VAAPI along the same vein why not SVT encoders? Or Turing NVENC? Or Navi AVC/HEVC?
#VIDEO CODEC COMPARISON SOFTWARE#
The only downside is that every media device or software does not support it. Users can also play higher resolution movies, whether 2K, Blueray, or 4K using HEVC coder-decoder. Soon the comparison of cloud transcoding services will be released, and also we will perform 4K and high-quality (including AV1) comparisons this year. It provides 50 better compression in comparison to H.264 in the video-on-demand applications. Most often was Pareto-optimal: HW265 in fast encoding use-case, Tencent V265 Encoder in universal, SIF and x264 in ripping use-case. (examples are: H.264, VP6, VP8, MPEG-4, WMV 9, DVD-Video, etc) audio codec. The encoding and decoding algorithm and format is called a codec. Usually this means using a particular compression scheme. When it comes to compare H265 with H264, the biggest difference lies in coding tree units. The video file must be encoded into a standard format (i.e. MPEG-H Part 2), is a compression algorithm, much more efficient than its predecessor H264. This year we used 100 videos for our tests (list of videos and descriptions: )īest bitrate handling: x264 in fast encoding use-case, HW265 in universal and ripping encoding use-cases H265 (HEVC): the abbreviation of High Efficiency Video Coding (aks. If someone is interested in the enterprise version, you can get it with 20% discount before 30/11/19 (use this link or a promo HEVC-NOVEMBER-2019-DN) MSU Video-Codec Comparison 2019 FullHD and Subjective reports are released įree versions of the reports are available from direct links ( FullHD and Subjective).