Zond 265 - first HEVC/H265 Video Analyser by Solveig Multimedia

[benwaggoner]

I just moved this thread to the new HEVC section.

Has anyone tried this analysis tool? Impressions?

[Dmitry Vergheles]

Hi Ben, thank you.

One more announcement. We've added ability to upload HEVC file (up to 2 MB to the moment) to online demo and analize it without restrictions for free.
Enjoy! http://zond265-demo.solveigmm.com:8090/

[Dmitry Vergheles]

ZOND 265 new version 1.8 is released. It gets around 60% faster and brings a number of handy features. It’s a Linux version, quality estimation with most popular PSNR and MSSIM metrics; command line interface workflow; HEVC specification quotes and references for most of syntax elements; enhanced floating license server;

http://www.solveigmm.com/en/products/zond/

1.5.1312.05, 2013-12-05

Features:

Quality estimation comparing original YUV file with preloaded HEVC file by PSNR and MSSIM metrics
Quality graph to show separate PSNR /MSSIM values for separate Y, U,V channels Visual map of PSNR for a frame coded tree blocks (CTB)
HEVC specification quotes for most of syntax elements. Just put a mouse pointer to any element name and get an information scope or open a specification at the necessary place (the specification should be downloaded and placed to a necessary folder)
Linux 32 and 64 bits versions of Zond 265 are available. The distributive operates on Ubuntu version 12.04 and above
Command line interface for quality estimation
Showing a residual picture type
Playback ability enabled
Copying a bitstream slice in detail to a clipboard
Compatible with HM13 and previous HMs starting from HM 10.01
Floating license server shows names of PCs / IP addresses of a current users

Fixes:
Optimized HEVC files opening and processing. It works 50-60 % faster than previous version
Improved Zond operating stability. Fixed many crashes and hangs
Improved last frame navigation in case it is not complete
Fixed. TU partition was sometimes shown overlapped
Fixed. Wrong handling of frames with negative POC after IDR

[Dmitry Vergheles]

Zond 265, HEVC Analyzer version 1.9 is out
The new edition of the software was primarily unveiled during the IBC 2014 exhibition in Amsterdam on September 12 – 16.

Features and improvements:

- Optimized processing of 4K files. The new Zond 265 reveals fivefold speed-up in handling UltraHD 4K files (as tested on PC Intel Core i7-2600 3.4GHz, 16GB RAM, Windows 7 x64)
- H.264/AVC video elementary streams are now supported in beta mode.

- Compatibility with the reference software HM 14
- CLI reports can now have CU data for entire frame as well as frame and stream statistics
- Different stages of picture decoding in command line mode (final, after deblock, before deblock, residual, predicted) can now be saved as YUV files
- Resizable layout. The minimal width limitation has been discarded.

Check out the entire history of changes on Solveig’s website.
http://www.solveigmm.com/en/products/zond/

Press release:
http://www.solveigmm.com/en/press/so...ideo-analyzer/

[Dmitry Vergheles]

Zond 265, ver. 2, with a bunch of new features is released and available for evaluation at http://www.solveigmm.com/en/products/zond/

The highlights:

- Detection of HEVC stream errors. Available in “Error” tab and as CLI report
- H.264/AVC support in release mode
- Mac OS X version of Zond for HEVC streams

Additional features include:

- Support of MPEG-2 Transport Stream for HEVC/H.265 and AVC/H.264 streams
- Compatible with the reference software HM 16.2
- Support of 4:4:4, 4:2:2, 4:0:0 chroma format for HEVC
- Support of 10 bits video compression for HEVC
- Optimized CLI report generation process for multiple simultaneous reports per run

Newest edition of the software will be unveiled during the shows as follows:

- NAB Show 2015 in Las Vegas, April 13-16, Booth: SU7102 of DekTeс

- CCBN 2015 in Beijing, March, Booth of DTVCore

- KobaShow in Seul, May 19 -22, Booth of Huton Digital

[Dmitry Vergheles]

Ver 4.1. Zond 265 incorporates Netflix VMAF metric for Quality Estimation
http://www.solveigmm.com/en/products/zond/


Zond 4.1 now supports the Netflix's Video Multi-method Assessment Fusion (VMAF) metric for quality estimation. The software leverages VMAF to compare an original YUV file with a preloaded video file. Correlating with human perception, this metric enables more precise video assessment after compression. Since relying on manual visual testing at all times proves unrealistic, VMAF attempts to address the issue by utilizing samples from Netflix content to help design and validate the algorithms.



The latest Zond edition comes on the heels of a major update – version 4 – that greatly expanded the product’s compatibility matrix. The novelties of Zond 265 v4 encompassed

AOMedia Video 1 (AV1) codec support in WebM format
MPEG-2 codec support as video elementary stream
HEVC Screen Content Coding Extension (SCC) support, and more



Netflix VMAF. How to measure video quality with VMAF in Zond

Video how to use VMAF in Zond 265
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opxehgDZ6nQ

[hajj_3]

any eta on h265 support in solveigmm splitter?

[Dmitry Vergheles]

Originally Posted by hajj_3

any eta on h265 support in solveigmm splitter?

Hi there,
yeah, it's quite old one to support HEVC in MP4 in TS
http://www.solveigmm.com/files/Solve..._HEVC_Beta.exe

Actually the release should come within this month.

[Dmitry Vergheles]

Great news for video enthusiasts. SolveigMM professional video debugging tool ZOND 265 with HEVC,AVC,AV1 on board gets a free plan!

If you know or want to learn what is HEVC, AV1, AVC, bitrate, macroblocks, motion vectors thats the tool

https://www.solveigmm.com/en/products/zond/