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MSU Video Codecs Comparison 2020

Fifteen Annual Worldwide Video Codecs Comparison

Deepest codecs review: 5 reports, including subjective with 1000+ viewers and 7000+ charts

Video group head: Dr. Dmitriy Vatolin
Project head: Dr. Dmitriy Kulikov
Measurements, analysis: Dr. Mikhail Erofeev,
Anastasia Antsiferova,
Egor Sklyarov,
Alexander Yakovenko,
Nickolay Safonov

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Updates

  • 01.04.2021: Released 4K report
  • 23.03.2021: Released subjective report
  • 07.12.2020: Released express UGC report
  • 07.12.2020: Released express FPGA report
  • 07.12.2020: Released main (FullHD objective) report
  • 26.11.2020: Report release dates updated

Comparison parts

Main (FullHD) comparison 2020 Subjective comparison 2020 4K & 10-bit objective comparison
Offline (1 fps) and Online (30 fps) encoding, 50 FullHD videos,
SSIM, PSNR & VMAF metrics


[Released] December 07
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Subjective comparison conducted on Subjectify.us platform

[Released] March 23
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Comparison on high-resolution video sequences

[Released] April 1
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Express comparisons

FPGA/Hardware encoders comparison UGC-videos-based express subjective comparison
Two encoding use cases measured on 50 FullHD videos

[Released] December 07

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Subjective comparison of set of videos from YouTube UGC dataset

[Released] December 19

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Comparison Methodology

Comparison methodology main points:
  • 50 FullHD video sequences (main report) + 10 4K video sequences (separate 4K comparison report)
  • SSIM, PSNR, VMAF objective metrics and subjective evaluation
  • 3 color-planes (Y,U,V) and integral metric values
  • 2 use cases for comparison on FullHD videos: Fast and Offline encoding (differ by encoding speed) + 2 use cases for subjective comparison on FullHD videos + 2 special use cases for comparison on 4K videos
  • 8-10 different target bitrates (1—12 Mbps for HD and 2—20 Mbps for 4K)
  • Prosumer-level modern hardware, automatic testing system
  • 15000+ resulting graphs, PDF and HTML reports

Download comparison methodology (PDF, 1.1 MB)


Thanks


Special thanks to the following contributors of our previous comparisons
Google Intel AMD NVidia
ATI Adobe ISPhone dicas
KDDI R&D labs Dolby Tata Elxsi Octasic
Qualcomm Voceweb Elgato Telecast
Huawei MainConcept Vitec Tencent

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