MSU HEVC/H.265 Video Codec Comparison 2015

[Dmitriy Kulikov]

Hello!

Moscow State University Graphics & Multimedia Laboratory
starts next tenth annual modern video codecs comparison for HEVC/H.265
codecs.

The main task of this comparison is to perform comparative unbiased
analysis of the current software and hardware (GPU-based) implementations of
HEVC/H.265 video coding standard and compare it to the best implementations
of other video coding standards (H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, VP9, VP8 and MPEG-4)
using objective metrics.

Three main usage areas for this comparison
* Ripping - transcoding with best quality
* Fast transcoding - transcoding for other system, devices with high speed
* Universal - trade-off between speed and quality of encoding


New this year features:
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* Two different hardware for testing for two type of users:
  Home User and Professional user - with desktop and server configuration respectively

* New HD video sequences including professional video sequences for video codec analysis.

* GPU codecs will be analyzed: Nvidia, AMD, and Haswell based
 encoders.

* Overall result for all encoders will be integrated value of quality,
  encoding speed and bitrate keeping.

* Three different report editions:
  ** Consumer edition - all the results for “Home user” desktop hardware and
     main results for “Professional user” server hardware
  ** Enterprise edition - all the results for “Home user” desktop hardware and
     or “Professional user” server hardware, including e.g. Scalability analysis,
  ** Premium edition - the same as Consumer edition plus detailed expert comments
     on all results


Important Dates
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February, 24  - Deadline for participation submission
March, 10  - Deadline for receipt of a codec with required presets
March, 31     - Deadline for settling technical problems with codec’s functioning
June, 10       - Draft version of report that will be sent to all participants
June, 20      - Deadline for reception of comments to the draft
June, 30      - Comparison report release

The full text of Call for Codecs is available at
http://compression.ru/video/codec_comparison/call_for_codecs_15.html

Variants of Participation
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There are two variants for companies to participate in our comparison:

1. Participation for free. All results of codec will be
   published, except special cases of measurements
   problems due to codec instability.

2. Private participation. A special report will be prepared only
   for private participant. This report contains:
   * Codec results and all material from the free version
   * Special additional analysis of codec

   If you are interested in the private participation,
   please contact us  for details.


Useful Links
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* Call for codecs-2015
http://compression.ru/video/codec_comparison/call_for_codecs_15.html

* Eighth Annual MSU MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Video Codec Comparison
  http://www.compression.ru/video/codec_comparison/h264_2012

* Options Analysis of MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Codec x264
http://compression.ru/video/codec_comparison/x264_options_analysis_08_en.html

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Best regards,
Dr. Dmitriy Kulikov,
Moscow State University (MSU)
Graphics&Media Lab
Videocodec Testing Team
videocode...@graphics.cs.msu.ru

[grm....@gmail.com]

How to get the Draft version on  June, 10  ?!

[phantom....@gmail.com]

Hello,

So when comparison report will be released?