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 …

When I first heard that Google Chrome played HEVC, I checked the weather in Hades to determine if it had, in fact, frozen over. Reports were inconclusive. Then I started reaching out to colleagues and contacts whose opinions I value to get their reactions and thoughts. Many spoke on the record, and many didn’t. In this article, I’ll attempt to …