What I’ll do in this post is to document how to run VMAF using the compiled version of FFmpeg, which is pretty straightforward. Here’s the links to Abi’s FFmpeg version (again): download So, a huge thanks to Abi for her hard work and gracious contribution. Abi compiled the necessary version of FFmpeg, which you can download here, and documented how to compile the codec yourself should you want to do so in the future. So, I reached out to friend and colleague Abharana (Abi) Bhat, Ph.D., who is the Video Architect, Video Quality at DAZN, the London-based OTT subscription sports streaming service. I know it’s been possible for quite a while now but since I’m not a coder I can’t compile the version of FFmpeg necessary to make it work. One of the gaps in my online course on Video Quality Metrics and my upcoming course on metrics at Streaming Media West was the ability to compute VMAF using FFmpeg on Wind.

I’ll leave this post up for historical purposes, but the newer post is the one that you should use. To learn how to do this, check out the blog post Lesson of the Week: Computing VMAF with FFmpeg on Windows.

Now the Zeranoe version does include VMAF support all you need to do is download the models and run the correct command strings. Author’s note: When this post was written, the Zeranoe FFmpeg Windows download didn’t include VMAF, so you had to either download this version or compile your own.

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