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MSU Video Codec Comparison
Contact person: Dmitriy S. Vatolin (dmitriy@graphics.cs.msu.ru)
MSU Codec Comparison aims to deliver high quality comparisons of video encoders to both industrial and scientific communities. Since 2003 our team publishes annual reports with codecs’ comparisons.
HEVC Codec Comparison
Testing Objectives
The main goal of this report is the presentation of a comparative evaluation of the quality of new HEVC codecs and codecs of other standards 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.Testing Rools
The comparison was performed on two platforms: For both platforms we considered three key use cases with different speed requirements.Overall Conclusions
Overall, the leaders in this comparison are x265, Intel MSS Hevc and x264! Enterprise and free versions of report are available here. Here are some overall graphs from report:
Recent comparisons
- Old Video Codecs Comparison (May 2003)
Comparison of more than 30 video codecs on several sequences and with different parameters. - Lossless Video Codecs Comparison (October 2004)
Comparison of 15 lossless codecs in RGB, YUV2, YV12 colorspaces. - MPEG-4 SP/ASP Video Codecs Comparison (March 2005)
The newest versions of MPEG-4 codecs comparison for their using by an ordinary user for home video compression.
Also shown the evolution of the DivX codec. - JPEG 2000 Image Codecs Comparison (September 2005)
Many JPEG 2000 codecs and one JPEG codec are compared.
Difference between several implementations of the standard is shown. - First Annual MPEG-4 AVC/ H.264 Video Codecs Comparison (January 2005)
Comparison of 6 codecs with default parameters. - Second Annual MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Video Codecs Comparison(December 2005)
Second annual H.264 codecs comparison. Comparison of 8 codecs. - Subjective Comparison of Modern Video Codecs (February 2006)
Four modern codecs were tested using SAMVIQ method (experts estimated video quality without information about the codec that was used). - MPEG-2 Video Decoders Comparison (May 2006)
Comparative analysis of quality of 8 MPEG-2 decoders while decoding distorted streams. This question is topical for satellite broadcasting and, to a lesser degree, for DVD video playback. - WMP and JPEG 2000 Comparison (October 2006)
Earlier tested image codecs of JPEG 2000 standard (see JPEG 2000 image codecs comparison) are comparing with new WMP standard from Microsoft. - Third Annual MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Video Codecs Comparison (December 2006)
Third annual H.264 codecs comparison. Additionally to traditional comparison of this year codecs, over-years comparison was performed (comparison of all tested last three years codecs). - Lossless Video Codecs Comparison 2007 (March 2007)
Comparison of 16 modern lossless video codecs was performed. Report includes the following topics: compression ratio analysis, speed analysis and parallelization capabilities. - Fourth Annual MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Video Codecs Comparison (December 2007)
Fourth annual H.264 codecs comparison. Additionally to traditional comparison new type of analysis with synthetic sequences was performed. Also new sequences, new codecs, new presets were used in this comparison. - Options Analysis of MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Codec x264 (December 2008)
Options of one of the best codecs x264 are analyzed to find best option values and best presets for various encoding speed. - Fifth MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Video Codecs Comparison (May 2009)
Fifth H.264 codecs comparison. New types of analysis, new sequences, new codecs, new presets were used in this comparison. - Sixth MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Video Codecs Comparison (May 2010)
Sixth H.264 codecs comparison. New sequences, new codecs and new presets were used in this comparison. - Seventh MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Video Codecs Comparison (May 2011)
Seventh H.264 codecs comparison. New sequences, new codecs and new presets were used in this comparison. GPU-encoders comparison. New quality metrics. - Eight MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Video Codecs Comparison (May 2012)
Eighth H.264 codecs comparison. New HDTV and Videoconference sequences, new codecs and new presets were used in this comparison. GPU-encoders comparison (including Ivy Bridge and NVIDIA platforms). - Ninth MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Video Codecs Comparison (Dec 2013)
Team
- Dmitriy S. Vatolin, Lomonosov Moscow State University
- Dmitriy Kulikov,
- Alexander Parshin,
- Mikhail Erofeev,
- Marat Arsaev
- Vladimir Yanushkovsky