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Moscow State’s Dr. Dmitriy Vatolin Talks Codecs, Metrics, and Video Quality
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Encode on-Premise or in the Cloud
Deciding whether to encode on-premise or in the cloud is one of the most critical …
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Installing and Using FFMetrics to Compute and Visualize VMAF, SSIM, and MS SSIM Metrics
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Don’t Sacrifice Usability On the Altar of Design
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Testing EVC, VVC, and LCEVC
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Moscow State’s Dr. Dmitriy Vatolin Talks Codecs, Metrics, and Video Quality
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