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 stereo and surround masters of the sound track for the short film Sintel.
We also have the stereo masters for the music score, sound track without vocals, and trailer sound track,

Video

We have a lossless version of the short film Elephants Dream. (15691 frames 16:9)

[ y4m 360p (1.1 GB) | 480p (1.6 GB) | 720p (4 GB) | 1080p (46 GB) ]
[ png 360p (3.4 GB) | 1080p (21 GB) ]

We have a lossless version of the short film Big Buck Bunny. (14315 frames 16:9)

[ y4m 360p (1.1 GB) | 480p (1.6 GB) | 720p (4.7 GB) | 1080p (11 GB) ]
[ png 360p (4 GB) | 1080p (29 GB) ]

We have a lossless version of the short film Sintel. (21312 frames 2.35:1)

[ png 1920x818 (27 GB) | 2k (29 GB - original release) | 4k (94 GB) | 4k 16 bit (483 GB) ]
[ tiff 4k 8 bit (146 GB) | 4k 16 bit (632 GB) ]

Sintel trailer

[ y4m 480p (735 MB) | 720p (1.7 GB) | 1080p (3.7 GB) ]
[ png 480p (224 MB) | 720p (461 MB) | 1080p (940 MB) ]

We have a music video for Breathe Out by the band Stealing Heather.

There are 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.
Basil Gohar.: This is a set of timelapse sequences by Basil Gohar. Generally available as scaled y4m streams and original jpeg image sequences.
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.