Codecs/filters comparison MSU tool released!

[DmitriyV]

New free powerful program for formal video quality measurement is
released now: MSU Video Quality Measure 0.71 BETA
http://www.compression.ru/video/quality_measure/video_measurement_tool_en.html

Supported video formats:
* *.AVI
* *.YUV (scientific)
* *.BMP

Supported metrics (and color spaces):
* PSNR (Y,U,V,L,R,G,B) - most popular
* Delta (Y,U,V,R,G,B)
* SSIM (Y) - new
* VQM (Y) - new
* MSU Bluring (Y,U,V) - new
* MSU Blocking (Y,U,V) - new

Main features:
* results are saved in *.CSV (can be opened everywhere)
* All metrics are visualized (very useful for codec and filter debugging)
* Main feature for codec lovers: comparative analysis (!!!)
Now everybody in 5 minutes is able to demonstrate that one codec is better than another!

• It's easy:
  * Set "comparative analysis" and select original, and sequences
  after compression with codec A and codec B (recommended more than 10000 frames).
  * Select metric (recommended Y-PSNR)
  * Select "Save bad frames" - pairs of frames with maximum metric difference (A>B) will be detected and saved.
  * Press "Process", find output frames and select best pairs
  * Upload frames to your favorite forum.
  * Done!

If you want to "prove", that codec B is better than A just swap compressed files in metric form fields.

Codec and filter programmes can use this feature for tuning (fast codec/filter update testing). For example, we use last mode (comparative analysis) for tests before new version release for added bugs fast search.

Program available for free download on:
http://www.compression.ru/video/quality_measure/video_measurement_tool_en.html

Enjoy!

P.S. Video quality human perceptual free tool coming soon! Stay online!

[BJ_M]

very nice !

[DmitriyV]

very nice !

Thanks! Any comments and ideas are welcome!

[hrlslcbr]

Great!
I'm going to try it now to compare x264 to CCE.

[DmitriyV]

Great! I'm going to try it now to compare x264 to CCE.

Ok! Please send us link to comparison. We plan to create special page with such links (with comparisons, measured with our metric).