Subject: Re: [rtcweb] Video codec quality evaluations (Re: Agenda time request for draft-dbenham-webrtcvideomti)
From: Gaelle Martin-Cocher <[email-masked]>
To: Harald Alvestrand <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 20:50:27 +0000
List-Id: Real-Time Communication in WEB-browsers working group list <rtcweb.ietf.org>

Harald,

You may want to clarify that the document you provided is not a report but an input document, and a later revision corrected the source of it.
Further tests and comparisons happen at that meeting (not necessarily very conclusive) and has pointed out by Rob, further tests for the next mpeg meeting were requested. Resolution 14.1.2 is pretty clear .

Sincerely,
Gaelle 

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From: [email-masked] [mailto:[email-masked]] On Behalf Of Harald Alvestrand
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 10:31 AM
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Subject: [rtcweb] Video codec quality evaluations (Re: Agenda time request for draft-dbenham-webrtcvideomti)

Sigh. I thought that after the drubbing draft-dbenham-webrtcvideomti got at the previous meeting, the authors would have either improved the attempts at quality evaluation or removed them.

It seemed to me that there was rough consensus on the mailing list earlier that the quality of the two codecs was close enough that this was not going to convince anyone who had already taken a strong position based on the IPR issues.

But if we are going to play the video codec quality evaluation game, I also have something I want to have on file here.

Google has submitted VP8 as a candidate for standardization in ISO/IEC
JTC1 SC29 WG11 (better known as MPEG). As part of that submission, we submitted a quantitative evaluation of VP8's quality compared to the then-current "IVC Test Model", which also included numbers compared to the AVC Baseline "anchors" that were part of the project description for the IVC effort.

This was contributed to MPEG's January meeting in Geneva; the decision at that meeting was to continue the evaluation effort, with new data being made available before the next meeting in April.

I'm enclosing the report with the test results; the tests were not done by Google; the scripts are available if anyone wants to run them for themselves.

                        Harald

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