Video: AV1 vs. HEVC: Perceptual Evaluation of Video Encoders

Zhou Wang explains how to compare HEVC & AVC with AV1 and shares his findings. Using various metrics such as VMAF, PSNR and SSIMPlus he explores the affects of resolution on bitrate savings and then turns his gaze to computation complexity.

This talk was given at the Mile High Video conference in Denver CO, 2018.

Speakers

Zhou Wang Zhou Wang
Chief Science Officer,
SSIMWAVE Inc.

Video: HEVC vs AV1

Ian Trow looks at the two big names in the room, AV1 and HEVC to understand them from a business perspective as well as technical.

Speaking at the Northern Waves conference, Ian covers:

  • Head-end options
  • OPEX & CAPEX
  • Cloud vs traditional
  • Encoding challenges and latency
  • Evaluation criteria (Functionality, TCO, Time to Market and more)
  • AV1 for OTT
  • Royalties
  • Encoding Structure
  • CDN Savings
  • AV1 Timeline
  • …so quite a bit then!

Watch now!
and check out the technical paper Ian presented on AV1 at IBC 2018

Speaker

Ian Trow Ian Trow
Consultant,
Codec & Video Tech Evangelist

[Video]: Video Compression 101

Jigsaw24’s Chief Engineer, Phil Crawley, explains video codecs from the fundamentals up. Codecs touch every part of the broadcast chain and are a vital part of the industry as much as of day to day life. So it’s worth brushing up or learning the basics to help you to fully understand what’s happening with today’s codecs, whether that be HEVC, AV1, JPEG XS or trusty MPEG4.

Phil covers:

  • Compressed and Uncompressed video & codecs
  • DCT Principles
  • Intra/Inter-frame compression
  • Acquisition Vs Editing Vs. Transmission codecs
  • Measuring compression effects
  • Codecs Vs File Formats & wrappers
  • Compression concatenation
  • MPEG4, H.264(AVC) & H.265(HEVC)

Watch now!

Want to take things further? Check out Harmonic’s Next-Gen Compression Techniques

Speaker

Phil Crawley Phil Crawley
Chief Engineer,
Jigsaw24

Top Video of 2018: HEVC vs AV1 and the Future of the Codec Battle

 

As the first post of 2019, please allow me to say Happy New Year and to thank you for the time you spend coming to the website, following by email and/or following on social media. Your visits, interest and recommendations are very important and highly appreciated. 2018 ended with being nominated for the Royal Television Society Website of the Year. Whilst the hardworking and knowledgable people at The Broadcast Bridge won, and deservedly so, I hope you’ll be as mighty pleased as I was to see a non-commercial site pitted against the best in the industry. Be assured that The Broadcast Knowledge always aims higher than before so what better motivation than to top that!

As we set our sights on 2019, there’s time for a brief look back at the top video linked to here on The Broadcast Knowledge in 2018. Looking back at the stats, it has the most page visits and the most clicks, so let’s revisit this panel on AV1 and HEVC. It’s not often you get the likes of Facebook and Harmonic sharing their latest research on stage with companies like Harmonic and Bitmovin who are very active in the Codec community, so it’s no surprise this piqued the interest of many.

This panel took place during NAB 2018 when AV1 had just ‘released’ the AV1 codec at the show but the points discussed are as relevant today as they were then including the adoption of HEVC in the marketplace. Having said that, do check out the AV1 and HEVC tags to see what more recent discussions there have been including a discussion of the future of video codecs at Streaming Media East 2018

Sit back and watch HEVC vs AV1 and the Future of the Codec Battle!

Speakers

Jan Ozer Moderator
Jan Ozer
Principal

Doceo Publishing

Thierry Fautier Mr Thierry Fautier

VP, Video Strategy

Harmonic

Michael Coward Mike Coward

Director of Engineering

Facebook

Christopher Mueller Christopher Mueller

CTO

BitMovin

Matt Frost Matt Frost

Head of Strategy and Partnerships

Google Chrome Media