Four days on the show floor at IBC solidified the concept that your choice of the live encoder is dictated by your encoding application. In this article, I’ll review the types of encoders and the trade-offs associated with each type and will identify the type of encoder that works best for a few selected encoding applications. Types of Live Transcoders …

This tutorial teaches you how to install and use FFMetrics, a free tool that lets you compute and visualize VMAF, SSIM, and PSNR on up to 12 files.  Let me start this article by stating that the one program I couldn’t live without in my role as video tester and evaluator is the Moscow State University Video Quality Measurement Too …

New lessons detail how to use FFMetrics; updated lessons on what VMAF is, how to compute VMAF with FFmpeg, and how to interpret VMAF scores. Just a quick note to let you know about new additions and updates to our course, Computing and Using Video Quality Metrics: A Course for Encoding Professionals, which teaches encoding professionals how to choose and …