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Lab4 HEVC

This document provides instructions for using the HEVC reference software (HM) to encode and decode video sequences. It describes downloading video test sequences and the HM16.20 software from provided links. The documentation explains how to compile the software sources if needed, and how to use the encoder and decoder executables via command line with example configuration and batch files provided. The goal is to test different HEVC encoding modes, including intra-only, low delay, and random access modes using the example configuration files and understand the effects on the decoded sequences.

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Lab4 HEVC

This document provides instructions for using the HEVC reference software (HM) to encode and decode video sequences. It describes downloading video test sequences and the HM16.20 software from provided links. The documentation explains how to compile the software sources if needed, and how to use the encoder and decoder executables via command line with example configuration and batch files provided. The goal is to test different HEVC encoding modes, including intra-only, low delay, and random access modes using the example configuration files and understand the effects on the decoded sequences.

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Master VICO – Lab on Video Coding

Lab: HEVC

Goal:
To use the HEVC reference software (or “HEVC modeling software”, HM) to encode / decode
video sequences.

To do:
You can download video sequences (format: YUV 4:2:0) from Extradoc. You can display them
by using YUVPlayer.exe. The HMs is freely available at this URL:
http://hevc.hhi.fraunhofer.de/svn/svn_HEVCSoftware/

The stable versions of the software are in the directory tags, we are going to use the HM16.20
version.
In principle, it requires a SVN client to get the archive. For simplicity reason, the
HM16.20.zip archive is also directly available on the Extradoc.
The documentation is in: \HM16.20\doc\software-manual.pdf
In principle, the binaries TAppEncoder and TAppDecoder are directly in: \HM16.20\bin\
vc2015\Win32\Debug\

Only if necessary, you can compile the sources by using “Microsoft Visual Studio C++”.
For example, "Microsoft Visual C ++ 20XX Express Edition" is used to compile the project
described in: \HM16.20\build\HM_vc2015.sln
So after compilation, the executables are in: \HM16.20\bin\vc2015\Win32\Debug\
The documentation explains how to use TAppEncoder and TAppDecoder by the command line.
Examples of encoder configuration files are in : HM16.20/cfg/

Example of an encoding.bat file:


C:\Users\ricordel\Documents\HM16.20\bin\vc2015\Win32\Debug\TAppEncoder.exe
-c C:\Users\ricordel\Documents\ETN5\test-encodage.cfg
-i C:\Users\ricordel\Videos\mobile-cif.yuv
pause

Example of a decoding.bat file:


C:\Users\ricordel\Documents\HM16.20\bin\vc2015\Win32\Debug\TAppDecoder.exe
-b C:\Users\ricordel\Documents\ETN5\test-mobile.hevc
-o C:\Users\ricordel\Documents\ETN5\test-decod-mobile-cif.yuv
pause

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You have to test different encoding modes, where at each time you:
• encode the video sequence at a given quality level;
• understand the parameters set of the corresponding configuration file;
• see the effects of these parameters on the decoded sequence;
• analyse de HEVC bitstream (for instance by using “Intel Video Pro Analyser” that you
can download freely from the site www.softpedia.com).

Exactly, you will test the following modes:


1. "Intra Only" (encoder_intra_main.cfg) where the frames are encoded successively and
using only intra prediction.
2. "Low delay" (encoder_lowdelay_main.cfg and encoder_lowdelay_P_main.cfg) where the
frames are encoded successively using the uni & bidirectional predictions respectively,
or only the uni-directional prediction.
3. "Random Access" (encoder_randomaccess_main.cfg), which allows the GOP to be
organized with time layers on several levels, this mode is better resilient to the
network packet losses (cf. "error concealment" approach), because low temporal layers
loss do not affect the higher ones.

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