MSU Video Codecs Comparisons

MSU Graphics & Media Lab (Video Group)

Call-for-codecs 2023-2024: participate in annual video-codecs comparison!

2022 Video Codecs Comparison Report is fully released!

Introduction to Video Codec Comparison
How to compare video codecs? How to do it correctly?

Ongoing comparisons

The following comparisons are currently being conducted:

MSU Video Codecs Comparison 2023-2024
FullHD videos, objective evaluation

Reports

Release date	Report name and description	Number of codecs	Number of pages in PDF report	Number of charts in PDF/HTML report
July 2022-November 2023	MSU Video Codecs Comparison 2022 Part 1: Hardware encoders (FullHD, objective comparison) Part 2: Cloud report Part 3: Hardware encoders 4K Part 4: FullHD (FullHD, objective metrics) Part 5: FullHD 10-bit (FullHD&10-bit, objective comparison) Part 6: 4K report (4K&10-bit, objective comparison) Part 7: Subjective report (FullHD, subjective comparison)	20+	200+	20000+
April 2021-March 2022	MSU Video Codecs Comparison 2021 Part 1: FullHD report (FullHD, objective metrics) Part 2: Subjective report (FullHD, subjective comparison) Part 3: 4K report (4K&10-bit, objective comparison) Part 4: Cloud report Part 5: FPGA&HW-accelerated codecs (FullHD, objective comparison)	20+	200+	20000+
April 2020-March 2021	MSU Video Codecs Comparison 2020 Part 1: Main report (FullHD, objective metrics) Part 2: Subjective report (FullHD, subjective comparison) Part 3: 4K report (4K&10-bit, objective comparison) Express report: UGC videos (subjective comparison) Express report: FPGA&HW-accelerated codecs (FullHD, objective comparison)	20+	200+	20000+
October 2019-March 2020	HEVC/AV1 Video-Codec Comparison 2019 Part 1: Main report (FullHD, objective metrics) Part 2: Subjective report (FullHD, subjective comparison) Part 3: 4K report (4K, objective comparison) Part 4: High-quality encoding report (FullHD, objective comparison) Cloud Video-Codec Comparison 2019 Cloud report (FullHD, objective comparison)	18	200+	20000+
September 2018	HEVC/AV1 Video Codecs Comparison 2018	14	150+	7118+
September 2017	HEVC/AV1 Video Codecs Comparison 2017	11	552	5000+
August 2016	HEVC Video Codecs Comparison 2016	8		4000+
October 2015	HEVC Video Codecs Comparison 2015	12		5500+
December 2013	Ninth MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Video Codecs Comparison	4		1500+
May 2012	Eight MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Video Codecs Comparison 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).	9		2092
May 2011	Seventh MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Video Codecs Comparison Seventh H.264 codecs comparison. New sequences, new codecs and new presets were used in this comparison. GPU-encoders comparison. New quality metrics.	10	199	1522
May 2010	Sixth MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Video Codecs Comparison Sixth H.264 codecs comparison. New sequences, new codecs and new presets were used in this comparison.	8	407	488
May 2009	Fifth MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Video Codecs Comparison Fifth H.264 codecs comparison. New types of analysis, new sequences, new codecs, new presets were used in this comparison.	6	204	279
December 2008	Options Analysis of MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Codec x264 Options of one of the best codecs x264 are analyzed to find best option values and best presets for various encoding speed.	1	41	38
December 2007	Fourth Annual MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Video Codecs Comparison 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.	6	162	213
March 2007	Lossless Video Codecs Comparison 2007 Comparison of 16 modern lossless video codecs was performed. Report includes the following topics: compression ratio analysis, speed analysis and parallelization capabilities.	16	130	122
December 2006	Third Annual MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Video Codecs Comparison 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).	7	157	185
October 2006	WMP and JPEG 2000 Comparison Earlier tested image codecs of JPEG 2000 standard (see JPEG 2000 image codecs comparison) are comparing with new WMP standard from Microsoft.	10	27	12
May 2006	MPEG-2 Video Decoders Comparison 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.	8	43	41
February 2006	Subjective Comparison of Modern Video Codecs Four modern codecs were tested using SAMVIQ method (experts estimated video quality without information about the codec that was used).	4	34	22
December 2005	Second Annual MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Video Codecs Comparison Second annual H.264 codecs comparison. Comparison of 8 codecs. Six of them were kindly provided by the codecs developers. Frequently asked questions	8	88	140
January 2005	First Annual MPEG-4 AVC/ H.264 Video Codecs Comparison Comparison of 6 codecs with default parameters. Three codecs were kindly provided by the codecs developers. Frequently asked questions Selected Comments for First MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Video Codecs Comparison, which were send to us after first MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 video codecs comparison	7	67	63
September 2005	JPEG 2000 Image Codecs Comparison Many JPEG 2000 codecs and one JPEG codec are compared. Difference between several implementations of the standard is shown.	9	27	216
March 2005	MPEG-4 SP/ASP Video Codecs Comparison 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.	7	68	65
October 2004	Lossless Video Codecs Comparison Comparison of 15 lossless codecs in RGB, YUV2, YV12 colorspaces.	15	23	9
May 2003	Old Video Codecs Comparison Comparison of more than 30 video codecs on several sequences and with different parameters.	33	190	319