Video Traces for Network Performance Evaluation

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We provide a large publicly available library of traces of encoded (compressed) video. The traces have been generated from encodings of several videos of typically 60 minutes length each. We provide traces for videos encoded with MPEG-4 Part 2, H.261, H.263, H.264/AVC, and H.264/SVC. Please refer to the technical reports for details on the video encoding procedure as well as the formatting of the available trace files and trace statistics.
Overview of available video traces with date of last update.

H.264

MPEG-4 Part 2

Other
Quick Reference Guide to H.264 Traces, May 2009.

Scalable (SVC)
April 2009, updated Sept. 2009 		Single Layer, Temporal and Spatial Scalable
October 2008		 MPEG-2
March 2007
  • Includes High-Definition
Scalable (SVC)
October 2008
  • Single Layer
  • Temporal
  • Spatial
 Single Layer, Temporal and Spatial Scalable
July 2005		 Multiple Descriptors
July 2004
Main Profile (AVC)
March 2007
  • Includes High-Definition
 Offset Distortion
May 2005		 Wavelets using MC-3DEZBC
November 2003
Macroblock Level
December 2004		 Pre-Encoded
June 2003
Fine Grain Scalability
June 2003		 H.26L
June 2002
Single Layer
October 2000		 H.263
October 2000
H.261
October 2000