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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

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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 Watch results >>	Subjective comparison conducted on Subjectify.us platform [Released] March 23 Watch results >>	Comparison on high-resolution video sequences [Released] April 1 Watch results >>

Express comparisons

FPGA/Hardware encoders comparison	UGC-videos-based express subjective comparison
Two encoding use cases measured on 50 FullHD videos [Released] December 07 Watch results >>	Subjective comparison of set of videos from YouTube UGC dataset [Released] December 19 Watch results >>

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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)

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Thanks

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Special thanks to the following contributors of our previous comparisons

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Materials about MSU Codec Comparison

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See all MSU Video Codecs Comparisons

MSU video codecs comparisons resources:

• Introduction to Video Codecs Comparison
• Lossless Video Codecs Comparison 2004 (October 2004)
• MPEG-4 SP/ASP Video Codecs Comparison (March 2005)
• JPEG 2000 Image Codecs Comparison (September 2005)
• First Annual MPEG-4 AVC/ H.264 Video Codecs Comparison (January 2005)
• FAQ of First MPEG-4 AVC/ H.264 Comparison
• Selected Comments for First MPEG-4 AVC/ H.264 Comparison
• Second Annual MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Video Codec Comparison (December 2005)
• FAQ of Second Annual MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Video Codec Comparison
• Subjective Comparison of Modern Video Codecs (February 2006)
• MPEG-2 Video Decoders Comparison (May 2006)
• WMP and JPEG2000 Comparison (October 2006)
• Third Annual MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Comparison (December 2006) (All versions for free!)
• Lossless Video Codecs Comparison 2007 (March 2007)
• Fourth Annual MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Comparison (December 2007) (All versions for free!)
• Options Analysis of MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Codec x264 (December 2008)
• Fifth MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Comparison (May 2009) (All versions for free!)
• Sixth MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Comparison (May 2010)
• Seventh MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Comparison (May 2011)
• Eighth MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Comparison (May 2012)
• Ninth MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Comparison (Dec 2013)
• Tenth Video Codec Comparison (HEVC) (Oct 2015)
• Eleventh Video Codec Comparison (HEVC) (Aug 2016)
• Twelfth Video Codec Comparison (HEVC) (Aug 2017)
• Thirteen Video Codec Comparison (HEVC) (Aug 2018)
• Fourteen Video Codec Comparison (HEVC) (Sept 2019)
• Cloud Encoding Servoces Comparison 2019 (Dec 2019)
• Fifteen Video Codec Comparison (HEVC) (Dec 2020)
• Sixteen Video Codec Comparison (Dec 2021)
• Seventeen Video Codecs Comparisons (Nov 2022)
• Eighteen Video Codecs Comparisons
• Codec Analysis for Companies:
  • Private Video Codec Comparison
  • MSU Video Quality Measurement Tool

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Other Materials

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Video resources:

3D and stereo video Projects on 3D and stereo video processing and analysis MSU S3D-video analysis reports MSU 3D Devices Testing 3D Displays Video Generation 3D Displays Video Capturing Stereo Video Depth Map Generation SAVAM Saliensy-Aware Video Compression & Dataset Video Matting Benchmark Video Inpainting Benchmark MSU Video Quality Measurement tools Programs with different objective and subjective video quality metrics implementation MSU Video Quality Measurement Tool - objective metrics for codecs and filters comparison Implemented metrics short info: PSNR, Delta, MSAD, MSE, SSIM, VQM, MSU Blurring Metric, MSU Blocking Metric Why update Download & Purchase Documentation MSU Human Perceptual Quality Metric - several metrics for exact visual tests Methods info: ITU-R BT.500-11: DSIS, DSCQS I & II, SCACJ; EBU: SAMVIQ; MSUCQE; Custom Download Documentation	Codecs comparisons Objective and subjective quality evaluation tests for video and image codecs MSU Video Codecs Comparison 2023-2024 MSU Video Codecs Comparison 2022 MSU Video Codecs Comparison 2021 MSU Video Codecs Comparison 2020 MSU Cloud Benchmark 2020 Cloud Encoding Services Comparison 2019 HEVC/AV1 Codec Comparison 2019 HEVC/AV1 Codec Comparison 2018 HEVC/AV1 Codec Comparison 2017 HEVC Codec Comparison 2016 HEVC Codec Comparison 2015 9-th MPEG4-AVC/H.264 Comparison 8-th MPEG4-AVC/H.264 Comparison 7-th MPEG4-AVC/H.264 Comparison 6-th MPEG4-AVC/H.264 Comparison 5-th MPEG4-AVC/H.264 Comparison Codec Analysis for Companies: Private Video Codec Comparison MSU Video Quality Measurement Tool Options Analysis of Codec x264 4-th MPEG4-AVC/H.264 Comparison Lossless Video Codecs Comparison 2007 3-rd MPEG4-AVC/H.264 Comparison HD Photo and JPEG 2000 Comparison MPEG-2 Decoders Crash Test Subjective Compar. of 4 Modern Codecs 2-nd MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Comparison FAQ of 2-nd H.264 Comparison 1-st MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Codecs Comparison FAQ of 1-st H.264 Comparison JPEG 2000 Image Codecs Comparison Lossless Video Codecs Comparison 2004 MPEG-4 SP/ASP Codecs Comparison Video codecs comparison (old) Ext. link: x264 parameters efficiency comparison
Public MSU video filters Here are available VirtualDub and AviSynth filters. For a given type of digital video filtration we typically develop a family of different algorithms and implementations. Generally there are also versions optimized for PC and hardware implementations (ASIC/FPGA/DSP). These optimized versions can be licensed to companies. Please contact us for details via video(at)graphics.cs.msu_ru. MSU Cartoon Restore MSU Noise Estimation MSU Frame Rate Conversion MSU Image Restoration MSU Denoising MSU Old Cinema MSU Deblocking MSU Smart Brightness and Contrast MSU Smart Sharpen MSU Noise generation MSU Noise estimation MSU Motion Estimation Information MSU Subtitles removal MSU Logo removal MSU Deflicker MSU Field Shift Fixer AviSynth plug-in MSU StegoVideo MSU Cartoonizer MSU SmartDeblocking MSU Color Enhancement MSU Old Color Restoration MSU TV Commercial Detector MSU filters FAQ MSU filters statistics	Filters for companies We are working with Intel, Samsung, RealNetworks and other companies on adapting our filters other video processing algorithms for specific video streams, applications and hardware like TV-sets, graphics cards, etc. Some of such projects are non-exclusive. Also we have internal researches. Please let us know via video(at)graphics.cs.msu_ru if you are interested in acquiring a license for such filters or making a custom R&D project on video processing, compression, computer vision. 3D Displays Video Generation 3D Displays Video Capturing Stereo Video Depth Map Generation Automatic Objects Segmentation Semiautomatic Objects Segmentation New Frame Rate Conversion New Deinterlacer MSU-Samsung Deinterlacing Project Digital TV Signal Enhancement Old Film Recovery Tuner TV Restore Panorama Video2Photo SuperResolution SuperPrecision MSU-Samsung image and video resampling MSU-Samsung Frame Rate Conversion Motion Phase filter Deshaker (video stabilization) Film Grain/Degrain filter Deblurring filter Video Content Search
Video codecs projects Different research and development projects on video codecs MSU Lossless Video Codec (Top!) MSU Screen Capture Lossless Codec (Top!) MSU MPEG-2 Video Codec x264 Codec Improvement	Other Other information Crazy gallery (filters screams :) License for commercial usage of MSU VideoGroup Public Software (please be careful: some soft like metrics has another license!)

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