Introduction To Comparison
The following characteristics are compared in video codecs comparisons:
- Video quality per bitrate (or range of bitrates). Commonly video quality is considered the main characteristic of codec comparisons. Video quality comparisons can be subjective or objective.
- Performance characteristics like compression/decompression speed, supported profiles/options, supported resolutions, supported rate control strategies etc.
- General software characteristics, for example:
- Manufacturer
- Supported OS (Linux, Mac OS, Windows)
- Version number
- Date of release
- Type of license (commercial, free, open source)
- Supported interfaces (VfW, DirectShow, etc.)
- Price for codec (volume discounts, etc.)
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