MSU Video Quality Measurement Tool 2.01 beta

MSU Video Quality Measurement Tool 2.01 beta is designed as a free program for video quality measurements.

Program allow to answer on questions:

1. One codec has more blurring than another. On what frames? Average mark?
2. One codec has more blocking than another. On what frames? Average mark?
3. One codec has more lower quality than another. On what frames? Average mark in PSNR, VQM, SSIM?
   

Supported video formats:

1. *.AVI
2. *.AVS
3. *.YUV (scientific) - 8, 10, 14 and 16 bits per color component
4. *.BMP (RGB24)
5. *.MOV, *.VOB, *.WMV, *.MP4, *.MPG, *.MKV, *.FLV and others (via AviSynth)

1. PSNR (Y,U,V,L,R,G,B) - most popular
2. Delta (Y,U,V,L, R,G,B)
3. MSAD (Y,U,V,L,R,G,B)
4. MSE (Y,U,V,L,R,G,B)
5. SSIM (Y)
6. VQM (Y)
7. MSU Blurring Metric (Y,U,V)
8. MSU Blocking Metric (Y,U,V)
9. MSU Brightness Flicking Metric (Y) - plugin
10. MSU Brightness Independent PSNR (Y) - plugin
11. MSU Drop Frame Metric (Y) - plugin
12. MSU Noise Estimation Metric (Y) - plugin
13. MSU Scene Change Detector (Y) - plugin

Major Features:

1. Results are saved in *.CSV (can be opened everywhere)
   
2. All metrics are visualized (very useful for codec and filter debugging)
   
3. Main feature for codec lovers: comparative analysis.
   
   • Everybody in 5 minutes is able to demonstrate that one codec is better than another! It's easy:
   • • Set "comparative analysis" and select original, sequences compressed with codec A and codec B (recommended more than 10000 frames).
     • Select metric (recommended Y-PSNR).
     • Select "Save bad frames" pairs of frames with maximum difference in values of the metric (A>B) will be detected and saved.
     • Press "Process", find output frames and select best pairs.
     • Upload frames to your favorite forum.
     • Done!
4. If you want to prove, that codec B is better than A just swap compressed files in metric form fields. Codec and filter developers can use this feature for tuning (fast codec/filter update testing).
   
5. Plug-ins interface gives user possibility to create their own metrics.
   
6. Masking (calculation of a metric for the part of a frame)
   
7. More than 8 bit per color component raw files support (PRO version only)
   
8. HDTV support (PRO version only)

Enhancements: New features implementation