Codec-Evaluation

Codec-evaluation is a tool to encode/decode and measure quality of video sequences using ffmpeg codecs.

You can control -

1. What yuv sequence to encode/decode and measure quality, their resolution and framerate.
2. What video codec to use - currently supports H.264, H.265 and VP9.
3. What encode parameter to use - change the quality (crf), gop size, presets (fast, slow etc.)

Please follow the steps below to set up the environment before a run -

1. Keep you yuv raw videos in the ./yuv_test_sequence folder, in corresponding resolution folder.
2. Update the config file (config.ini) - check the quality range, gop value, codec type etc.
3. Run - "python3 evaluate.py"
4. Constant Bitrate (CBR) encoding is currently supported for h.265 only. See the config file for new 'mode' and parameters.

Output

The output is saved in the ./results folder, the binaries are saved in the ./bin_out folder.

Sample output is shown below, this will be an average of all the video sequence in the yuv_test_sequence folder -

psnr_avg_288_libx264 = [26.29607773919204, 28.25003059852258, 30.81174368888136, 32.69310659791685, 34.63873376629648, 36.64967347023189, 38.76475614356222]

ssim_avg_288_libx264 = [0.9641060906012429, 0.9781503071221932, 0.9881359175721655, 0.9921370460460665, 0.9947620193804771, 0.9964253007938786, 0.9975398672198192]

vma_avg_288_libx264 = [68.98055665043144, 79.56509812560193, 89.95869716033334, 94.88849898346604, 97.20867335608702, 98.42591591777732, 99.14592374667019]

bpp_288_libx264 = [0.01386311026936027, 0.01937605218855219, 0.031679555976430976, 0.0476701914983165, 0.07385890151515151, 0.11395412457912459, 0.17678766835016835]

Plotting

The folder ./plotter has the script to plot rate-distortion graph. The python file has dummy metrics or a sample run to get you started.

The file yuv_test_sequences/ffmpeg_scale.py has scripts to resize the raw yuv 420p video sequences.

Requirements

1. python3 with matplotlib and json
2. ffmpeg compiled with libvmaf, tested for version 1.5.3, may not work for 2.1.1

References

1. For ffmpeg usage - https://ffmpeg.org/, installation - https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/CompilationGuide/Ubuntu
2. For libvmaf usage - https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-all.html#libvmaf (follow the instructions carefully.)
3. For libvmaf installation - https://ottverse.com/vmaf-ffmpeg-ubuntu-compilation-installation-usage-guide/, https://github.com/Netflix/vmaf

Test Sequences

1. UVG test sequences - http://ultravideo.fi/#testsequences
2. Traces, ASU dataset - http://trace.eas.asu.edu/yuv/index.html
3. Xiph dataset - https://media.xiph.org/video/derf/