MSU MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 2012 Video Codec Comparison - CALL FOR CODECS

[Dyomich]

Dear video codec developers,

Moscow State University Graphics & Multimedia Laboratory
starts next eighth annual H.264 video codecs comparison.

New this year features:

• GPU codecs will be analyzed:Nvidia, AMD, and Ivy Bridge based encoders.
  This year we want to make GPU-encoders analysis more
  interesting and complex. For this analysis we plan to use top GPUs,
  e.g. Nvidia and AMD and also to analyze Intel Ivy Bridge (Intel HD
  Graphics 4000) based encoder. Developers can send us
  GPU-accelerated or GPU-based encoder with or without CPU-based
  encoder!
  
• We plan to include new codecs that did not participate in previous
  comparison by choosing presets for them ourself.
  For that task we will use option analysis. So we will be glad to
  have a direct contact with codec developers. The main benefit of
  direct participation for developers is that developer could help us
  to choose correct settings for better results and additionally
  developers receive Enterprise version of comparison free of charge.
  
• Videoconference encoding analysis will be more complex comparing
  to previous comparison.
  
• New video sequences including professional video sequences for video codec analysis

Important Dates
February, 17 - Deadline for receipt of a H.264 codec with presets
February, 28 - Deadline for settling technical problems with codec
April, 24 - Report's draft will be sent to all participants
May, 5 - Deadline for reception of comments to the draft
May, 15 - Comparison report release

The full text of Call for Codecs is available at
http://compression.ru/video/codec_co...codecs_12.html

Variants of Participation
There are two variants for companies to participate in our comparison:

1. Participation for free. All results of your codec will be
   published, except special cases of measurements
   problems due to codec instability.
   
2. Private participation. A special report will be prepared only
   for your company. This report contains:

   • Your codec results and all material from the free version
   • Special additional analysis of your codec

If you are interested in the private participation,
please contact us for details.

Useful Links

• Call for codecs-2011
  http://compression.ru/video/codec_co...codecs_12.html
  
• Seventh Annual MSU MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Video Codec Comparison
  http://www.compression.ru/video/code...ison/h264_2011
  
• Options Analysis of MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Codec x264
  http://compression.ru/video/codec_co...sis_08_en.html

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Best regards,
Dr. Dmitriy Kulikov,
Moscow State University (MSU)
Graphics&Media Lab
Videocodec Testing Team
videocodec-testing@graphics.cs.msu.ru