Xiph.org Test Media

Our collection of test sequences and clips for evaluating compression technology.

Audio

We have stereo and 5.1 surround masters of the soundtrack from the short film Elephants Dream.

We have stereo and surround masters of the sound track from the short film Big Buck Bunny.

We have several collections of video clips available:

Derf's collection.: This set includes many standard definition clips widely used in the video compression research community. Generally uncompressed from analog source.
Firebelly.: Several performance clips, including the miniDV originals.
Miscellaneous.: A catch-all for various contributions. Most are computer generated at the moment.

VQEG Test Sequences mirror.: We have a mirror the the Video Quality Experts Group (VQEG test sequences. These are in raw yuv format. See the thumbnails directory for and index.
LDV Test Sequences mirror.: Mirror of the HD test sequences from tu-muenchen.
SVT Test Sequences mirror.: A partial mirror of the SVT 4k test clips as published by VQEG. These are stored as 16 bit .sgi RGB files, one per frame.

More to come.