Category Archives: Encoding

Beamr Technology Assessment

Blogs, Codecs, EncodingBy Jan Ozer January 27, 2015

I recently finished evaluating Beamr Video. The evaluation included analyzing the quality of the resulting clips using objective measures such as PSNR, SSIM and VQM, and conducting extensive viewing of the optimized clips, assessing their subjective quality compared to the original clips. Following this evaluation, I concluded that “for 99.99% of the expert and average…

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About IDR Frames but Were Afraid to Ask

Articles, EncodingBy Jan Ozer December 27, 2011

Depending upon your encoding tool, you may have access to a checkbox or number box that controls something called IDR frames. What are these creatures and what is their significance? More importantly, what’s the optimal setting? Well, let’s just say that if you’re seeing anything like the random blockiness in the picture below when you…