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"AV1 has the potential to be up to 20% better than the HEVC codec" Can you clarify what is meant by better here? More compressed?
by ninjakeyboard 8y ago
"AV1 has the potential to be up to 20% better than the HEVC codec"
Can you clarify what is meant by better here? More compressed?
- rbultje 8y agoBitrate reduction for the same quality. So a file of identical quality - in some metric - will be 20% smaller (e.g. 8 MB instead of 10 MB for a video).
- vbezhenar 8y agoHow quality is measured? I never saw any quality estimations in software, e.g. when I'm exporting JPEG image, I'd like to have some kind of result quality estimation, it might be hard to judge it yourself.
- yekm 8y agoPSNR for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_signal-to-noise_ratio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_signal-to-noise_ratio
- vsl 8y agoSome function of the difference in pixels between the original and decoded compressed version. This is a complicated subject, because a good error function should account for human perception and weight unimportant differences less.