VQ Probe
Professional free tool for video quality measurement
The key usage model is to compare several implementations of the same codec standard or several different codecs
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Advantages
VQ Probe is a professional visual instrument for objective and subjective video quality comparison. It supports commonly used quality metrics, such as PSNR, SSIM, VMAF, and modern standards (AVC/H.264, HEVC/H.265, VVC/H.266, AV1, AV2, AVS3, MJPEG, MPEG2, VP9). VQ Probe allows users to compare different codec standards, build RD curves and calculate BD rates. It is capable of viewing YUV/Y4M files as well. Measure the quality of your videos with VQ Probe!
- Objective & subjective assessment of video quality
- Convex Hull for adaptive streaming
- Buffer View
- Metrics in Regions of Interest (ROI)
- Player for elementary video streams
- Simple and user-friendly interface
Key features
- Unlimited files in a single project
- Command line
- Scene change detection
- Containers support
- Metrics data import (from cache) and export
- Supporting most popular metrics, including PSNR, SSIM, VMAF
- RD Curves and BD Rate calculation
- Video playback of 2 videos
- Overlap and Independent modes for playback
- Field Split Mode
- Visualization of the difference between the encoded and the reference files
- Heat map difference
- Metrics visualization
- Source files trimming
- Frame cropping
- Looped playback
- 4K support
- Zoom down to pixel values
- YUV Viewer
- Quality measurement tool
- Available for Mac, Windows, Linux
Target audience
- QA engineers
- Technical support engineers
- Broadcasters
- Non-professional
Industry
- Semiconductor
- Broadcasting
- eSports
- Streaming service
- Social networks
- Software codecs development
- University
Technical characteristics
Supported elementary video formats:
- AVC / H.264
- HEVC / H.265
- VVC / H.266
- AV1
- AV2
- AVS3
- MJPEG
- MPEG2
- VP9
Supported uncompressed formats:
- YUV
- Y4M
- RGB
Supported Image Formats:
- BMP
- JPG
- PNG
Supported containers:
- MP4
- TS
- MKV
- AVI
- IVF
- WEBM
- MOV
- PCAP
Supported chroma subsampling::
- 4:0:0
- 4:2:0
- 4:2:2
- 4:4:4
- 4:4:0
Supported bit depth:
- 8 bit
- 10 bit
- 12 bit
- 16 bit
System requirements:
OS: Windows 10/11, Mac OS 10.14+, Ubuntu 18.04+RAM: for 4K resolutions 16Gb is highly recommended.
Documentation
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