HEVC/AV1 Video-Codecs Comparison 2020 (Fifteen MSU Video-Codec Comparison) (original) (raw)
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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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 >> |
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
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Thanks
Special thanks to the following contributors of our previous comparisons
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Materials about MSU Codec Comparison
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)
- Second Annual MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Video Codec Comparison (December 2005)
- 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)
- Eighteenth Video Codecs Comparisons (Apr 2025)
- Nineteenth Video Codecs Comparisons (2025)
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