VQ Probe
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
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Advantages
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 Hull for adaptive streaming
Buffer View
Metrics in Regions of Interest (ROI)
Player for elementary video streams
Simple and user-friendly interface
*These advantages are available when a one-year perpetual license is purchased*
Key Features
Unlimited files in a single project
Command line
Scene change detection
Containers support
Metrics data import (from cache) and export
Supporting most popular metrics, including PSNR, SSIM, VMAF
RD Curves and BD Rate calculation
Video playback of 2 videos
Overlap and Independent modes for playback
Field Split Mode
Visualization of the difference between the encoded and the reference files
Heat map difference
Metrics visualization
Source files trimming
Frame cropping
Looped playback
4K support
Zoom down to pixel values
YUV Viewer
Quality measurement tool
Available for Mac, Windows, Linux
- Codec HW IP
- SoC Designers
- Codec SW Developers
- Video Codec Validation
- QA Engineers
- Academic Researchers
- Semiconductor
- Broadcasting
- eSports
- Streaming Service
- Social Network
- Software codecs development
- University and higher education
Technical Characteristics
Supported Elementary Video Formats
- AVC / H.264
- HEVC / H.265
- VVC / H.266
- AV1
- AV2
- MJPEG
- MPEG2
- Vp9
Supported Containers
- MP4
- TS
- MKV
- AVI
- IVF
- WEBM
- MOV
- PCAP
Supported Chroma Subsampling
- 4:0:0
- 4:2:0
- 4:2:2
- 4:4:4
- 4:4:0
Supported Uncompressed Formats
- YUV
- Y4M
- RGB
Supported Image Formats
- BMP
- JPG
- PNG
Supported Bit Depth
- 8 bit
- 10 bit
- 12 bit
- 16 bit
System Requirements
- OS: Windows 10/11, Mac OC 10.14+, Ubuntu 18.04+
- RAM: for 4k resolutions 16 GB is highly recommended
VQ Probe