Performance Comparison of AV1, JEM, VP9, and HEVC Encoders

Fraunhofer HHI SPIE 2017 paper comparing codec internals, BD-BR, and complexity across AV1, JEM, VP9, and HEVC.

Link

• Visit resource

Related resources

• libvpx-rsRust bindings for libvpx supporting VP8/VP9 encode/decode with prebuilt binaries.
• libvpx-goAuto-generated Go bindings for libvpx, enabling VP8/VP9 encode/decode from Go.
• oxideav-vp9Pure-Rust VP9 decoder implementation including header parsing, bool decoder, and partial intra prediction, under active development.
• av1-codec-comparisonGoogle internship research project comparing SVT-AV1 and rav1e coding tools against libaom for quality and speed.
• NotEnoughAV1Encodes-QtLinux Qt GUI wrapping aomenc/rav1e/SVT-AV1 encoders with chunked parallel encoding support.
• SVT-AV1 documentation treeCanonical SVT-AV1 docs covering encoder parameters, build guide, encoder design and per-tool appendices for CDEF, CfL, film grain, global m…
• Xilinx/AMD Video SDK — on-prem getting started (Alveo U30)Official docs for deploying the Alveo U30 video acceleration stack: XRT, the XRM resource manager and FFmpeg/GStreamer plugins with the XMA…
• nano-hevcMinimal educational HEVC encoder written in pure Python, readable-over-fast, for teaching codec internals.
• Opus (xiph/opus)Reference implementation of the Opus audio codec, recently adding deep-learning-based packet loss concealment.
• FOSDEM 2024: VVdeC<>Arm — Optimizing an Open Source VVC Decoder for Arm ArchitecturesFOSDEM Open Media devroom talk detailing Arm-specific performance optimization work on the open-source VVdeC VVC decoder.
• Making the rav1d Video Decoder 1% FasterDetailed performance teardown of the Rust rav1d AV1 decoder versus C dav1d, walking through profiling and codegen-level fixes.
• SVT-AV1 Deep Dive — preset/CRF benchmark methodologyLarge-scale SVT-AV1 benchmark (thousands of encodes) across presets and CRF using SSIMULACRA2 and XPSNR with documented harmonic-mean metho…