General Tools

About this collection

General Tools brings together 514 curated resources from across the video technology landscape. Notable topics include API Libraries & SDKs, Build Scripts & Automation, Case Studies & Best Practices in DRM, and Command-line Utilities & Wrappers.

Resources (showing 409–432 of 514)

• ATHENA Lab Publications (AAU Klagenfurt / Bitmovin)Open publication index of the ATHENA research lab covering HTTP adaptive streaming, encoding, packaging, players and energy-efficient strea…
• ByteDance NEVC — Neural Video CodingByteDance's open-source neural video coding implementation (EHVC, ACM MM 2025) with code.
• Convex Hull Prediction Methods: Design, Eval & ComparisonSurvey and benchmark of convex-hull bitrate-ladder prediction methods for per-title encoding (ACM TOMM 2025).
• EBU DMF Media eXchange Layer (MXL): Streamlining Multi-Vendor Live Video (Mile-High Video)Conference paper describing MXL's design goals and grain-exchange architecture for interoperable software-based live production.
• Exploring Widevine for Fun and ProfitResearch paper reverse-engineering the Widevine protocol and key ladder on Android, introducing the WideXtractor analysis tool with a Netfl…
• GIViC — Generative Implicit Video Compression (ICCV 2025)ICCV 2025 paper on Generative Implicit Video Compression, using implicit neural representations with generative priors for video coding.
• GREEM: Measuring Energy Consumption of Video Encoding/DecodingOpen-source library for measuring energy consumption of video encoding and decoding, targeting sustainability-focused benchmarking.
• High Dynamic Range Television and Hybrid Log-Gamma - BBC R&DBBC R&D's project page on HDR television and Hybrid Log-Gamma. Resource for HDR workflow development.
• INSA Rennes VAADER Bitrate Ladder DatasetReleased convex-hull / bitrate-ladder dataset of UHD shots encoded across AVC, HEVC and VVC, supporting reproducible per-title ladder resea…
• Microsoft DCVC — Deep Contextual Video CompressionNeural video codec research line from Microsoft Research (DCVC, DCVC-RT), CVPR 2024/2025 papers with open-source code and pretrained checkp…
• NUS VV-Streams QoE ModelSubjective QoE dataset and model for volumetric video geometry/texture compression from NUS research lab.
• NVRC — Neural Video Representation Codec (NeurIPS 2024)First INR-based neural video codec to beat VTM (random-access) on long sequences; NeurIPS 2024 code release.
• NetLLMSIGCOMM 2024 research adapting LLMs for networking tasks including adaptive bitrate streaming, viewport prediction, and job scheduling, wit…
• OpenAPV: Open Collaborative Innovation in the Professional Video Ecosystem (ACM MM'25)ACM Multimedia 2025 paper introducing OpenAPV and the design rationale for an open professional mezzanine codec, with companion open source…
• Puffer (Stanford research study)Overview of Stanford's Puffer, a live production research platform with real users studying ML-driven adaptive bitrate algorithms.
• REVISION: Roadmap on Adaptive Video Streaming OptimizationSurvey/roadmap of ABR optimization techniques by Tashtarian & Timmerer (Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt, ATHENA group).
• RL-DASHReinforcement learning (Q-learning) based adaptive bitrate control simulated over ns3 and DASH.
• SIGMM Records: Open Dataset Sessions & Benchmarking Competitions, ACM MMSys 2023–2025Curated overview of MMSys open-dataset and open-source track papers 2023-2025 with links to released datasets and code (volumetric VQA, 8K…
• Towards Practical Real-Time Neural Video Compression (DCVC-RT)CVPR 2025 paper on a neural video codec achieving 125fps at 1080p encode/decode with 21% bitrate savings versus H.266/VTM.
• Video Quality Assessment: A Comprehensive Survey (living index)Continuously updated survey repository indexing modern VQA methods (DisCoVQA, SAMA, PTM-VQA, SSL-VQA, KVQE/KVQ and more) with links to pape…
• Video Streaming Over QUIC: A Comprehensive StudyAcademic study analyzing QUIC transport protocol for low-latency video streaming performance.
• Video-LitResearch-lab-maintained curated literature index of systems/networking video research (ABR, QoE) from major CS venues, linking code and dat…
• VideoATLASAcademic QoE prediction model release using rebuffering statistics as efficient predictors of viewer quality of experience.
• WaterlooSQoE-IV DatabaseLargest subject-rated ABR QoE database with 1350 videos across diverse encoders, network traces, ABR algorithms, and devices.