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.

Video

We have a lossless version of the short file Elephants Dream.

We have lossless version of the short film Big Buck Bunny.

We have several collections of video clips available:

Derf's collection.
This set of test clips includes many widely 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. All 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.

More to come.