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
- Measure
- Compare
- Improve
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 Hulll 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
- Buffer View
- Scene change detection
- Containers support
- Metrics data import ( from cache) and export
- Supporting most poupular metrics, including PSNR , SSIM VMAF
- Video playback of 2 Videos
- Overlap and independent modes for playback
- Field Split Mode
- Visualization of difference between the encoded and reference files
- Heat map difference
- Metrics visualization
- Source files Trimming
- Frame cropping
- Looped playback
- 4 K support
- Zoom down to pixel values
- YUV viewer
- Quality measurement tool
- Available for Mac, windows, Linux
Technical Characteristics
Technical Characteristics
- Codec HW IP & Soc designers
- Codec SW developers
- Video Codec Validation & QA engineers
- Academic Researchers
Technical Characteristics
- Codec HW IP & Soc designers
- Codec SW developers
- Video Codec Validation & QA engineers
- Academic Researchers
Technical Characteristics
- Codec HW IP & Soc designers
- Codec SW developers
- Video Codec Validation & QA engineers
- Academic Researchers
Technical Characteristics
- Codec HW IP & Soc designers
- Codec SW developers
- Video Codec Validation & QA engineers
- Academic Researchers
Technical Characteristics
- Codec HW IP & Soc designers
- Codec SW developers
- Video Codec Validation & QA engineers
- Academic Researchers
Technical Characteristics
- Codec HW IP & Soc designers
- Codec SW developers
- Video Codec Validation & QA engineers
- Academic Researchers