Video Bitstream Analysis and Quality Tuning
VQ Analyzer is a video stream analysis tool designed to inspect every essential step of the decoding process graphically and numerically
- Inspect
- Debug
- Improve
Advantages
- Syntax Information for specs in each streams
- Compliance Validation/Error Reporting
- Dual View mode with 2 in-sync streams
- Frequent updates
- Load Debug YUV with multiple functions
- Flexibility with purchasing license
- GUI and console mode
- Speed and stability of functioning
- Detailed video analysis
- 24/7 worldwide support (1st-year free support service*)
*available with the purchase of a one-year perpetual license
Key Features
STATISTICS
- Quotation from spec for each syntax element
- Whole bitstream & each separate frame statistics
- Extract syntax and statistical data to a file
BLOCK
- Detailed information for the selected block in Selection Info
- Detailed view for a selected block in each processing stage with values and actions
DEBUG
- Load an original uncompressed or decoded stream to debug the difference
- Dual view to synchronize actions over 2 similarly encoded streams
- Find the first difference between Reference and Debug pixels
- View of bits in the bitstream for Selected NAL/Frame/Block
- Detect, class Nameify, display, and navigate to a bitstream error or level incompliance
FRAME
- Dedicated view for each stage of frame processing
- Extracting intermediate pictures to a file
- DPB state for the frame
- Graphically Analyze Coding Flow
- Visual Overlays: Heat Map, QP Map, Efficiency Map, and many other
- Display PSNR/SSIM metrics as block-based heat map
STATISTICS
- Quotation from spec for each syntax element
- Whole bitstream & each separate frame statistics
- Extract syntax and statistical data to a file
BITSTREAM
- Thumbnails Filmstrip with Frame Type and picture preview
- Bars Filmstrip with Frame type and size
- Frame reference dependency and hierarchy
- Extracting NAL units and sub stream
- Spec compliance verification
- HDR and VBV buffer visualization
- Displaying PSNR/SSIM metrics per frame on a timeline graph
Target Audience
- Codec HW IP & Soc designers
- Codec SW developers
- Video Codec Validation & QA engineers
- Academic Researchers
Industry
- Semiconductor
- Broadcasting
- Esports
- Streaming service
- Social Networks
- Software codecs development
- University & Higher Education
Technical Characteristics
Suppported elementary video formats :
- AVM AOMedia’s next generation video coding standard
- JPEG XS, VC-3, APV
- AVS3, SHA-1 (phase-2 branch of HPM source, tag HPM-11.0)
- HEVC: v.1 (ISO/IEC 23008-2 MPEG-H Part 2 or ITU-T
H.265) , 8/10-bit - HEVC: v.2 RExt extension, 8/10/12-bit
- HEVC SCC: according to SCM 8.5
- SHVC: according to SHM-12.1
- AV1
- AVC: H.264/AVC, ISO/IEC 14496-10, MPEG-4 Part 10,
High profile, 8/10-bit - MPEG2: (ISO/IEC 13818-2 Part 2), 8-bit
- VC: H.266/VVC, based on VTM 13.0
- Containers: mkv, webm, mp4, mpeg2 ps/ts, avi,mmt
- Colors: BT601, BT709, BT2020
System Requirements
HARDWARE
- 1GB RAM minimum, 4GB recomended when loading 4K image
SOFTWARE
- Microsoft: windows 7+, 32bit/64bit
- Mac OS: 10.12+
- Ubentu, linux: 16.04+
- SLES: 12+
- Cenos: 7.4+
