vmaf VS video-compare

Netflix did VMAF for this: https://github.com/Netflix/vmaf

It checks a reference video against an encoded video and returns a score representing how close the encoded video appears to the original from a human perspective.

Not sure this is the right sub but I'm going to encode my entire BluRay collection in AV1 / NVEC. I'd like to optimize settings with VMAF but would like an ubuntu/debian based GUI to work with.

VMAF for anybody that doesn't know quantifies the quality difference between a source and modified video.

Netflix even has a method to measure perceivable quality difference. A little while ago I used this tool to calculate this.

Well you can use something like https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo to look at the files and https://github.com/Netflix/vmaf to see if there is no loss.

Vmaf exists

You can try some tests https://github.com/Netflix/vmaf

You can try VMAF as well (which ffmpeg supports). It's normally recommended to make a lossless copy first as a baseline too

As mentioned those are different frames you are testing. Personally I use veryslow but most people here don't spend as much time encoding a single item as I do. Also don't use PNGs for checking use Video Compare . You can run two different MKVs at the same time and compare them frame by frame both in playback and pausing them.

use the Video-Compare tool. watch the demo here how it works

https://github.com/pixop/video-compare This one is simple but really good

Well, I would use https://github.com/pixop/video-compare for that - it's the tool I normally use to compare videos (to find differences or to check image compression issues) but it can load the same video twice to watch it frame by frame. It even shows the type of frame I'm on so it's useful when I need to find a keyframe to do a video split with no recoding.

You can preview (export as preview) test of few presets, settings, etc. on TVAI and if you wish you could also use a compare tool to check the results to see for yourself if you notice any difference between them (that would save you tons of time). or just playback the 2s / 5s of the preview(s) you generate, right after the other to see if you spot any difference in quality.

If you need to compare images easily, consider slow.pics. Or ICAT, or Video Comparison Tool. And actually, even x264 and x265 don't have perfect CRF scales as well, they are offset by a constant iirc.

You can easily check the type of each frame with the use of https://github.com/pixop/video-compare/ software - just use the same video twice (as video-compare needs two video inputs) and look for I, B, P letters near the current frame time.

Try Video compare.