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Fine-Tune Your Encoding With Objective Quality Metrics – Video and Handout

My Streaming Media session on using video quality metrics is now available for replay immediately below. You can download the handout here. Here’s the session description. T101. HOW-TO: Fine-Tuning Your Encoding With Objective Quality Metrics Tuesday, November 19: 10:30 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. Choosing the number of streams in an adaptive group and configuring them is usually a subjective, touchy-feely …

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Buy Moscow State University Video Quality Measurement Tool; Get Video Quality Metrics Course for Free

The Moscow State University Video Quality Measurement Tool has long been my go-to desktop tool for computing video quality metric scores. When I created my course on Video Quality Metrics, I included six lessons on using the tool. Here’s a brief video that shows operation and the new features in Version 12.  Lessons in the tutorial cover operations like …

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My Three Favorite Features in MSU VQMT Version 12

Moscow State University’s Video Quality Measurement Tool (VQMT, $999 with volume discounts available) is my go-to desktop tool for computing metrics like VMAF, PSNR, and SSIM. The program is easy to use, has great visualization tools, and lets me inspect videos on a frame-by-frame basis. MSU recently released version 12 which has three great enhancements.This article covers these plus this …

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