Interra Systems Adds Netflix's VMAF Scoring to VEGA Media Analyzer to Elevate Video Quality Assessment

New Feature Boosts Precision and Efficiency in Video Quality Assessment for Media Companies, Broadcasters, and Streaming Service Providers

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New Feature Boosts Precision and Efficiency in Video Quality Assessment for Media Companies, Broadcasters, and Streaming Service Providers

CUPERTINO, Calif. — Nov. 26, 2024 — Interra Systems, a leading provider of end-to-end quality assurance solutions for the digital media industry, today announced the integration of Netflix's Video Multi-method Assessment Fusion (VMAF) algorithm — a widely-trusted standard for video quality assessment — into its industry-leading VEGA Media Analyzer solution. This integration empowers media companies, broadcasters, and streaming services to assess video quality with increased precision and efficiency, meeting the growing demand for perceptually accurate quality control (QC) across high-stakes streaming environments.

Developed by Netflix, VMAF has become a benchmark for perceptual video quality assessment, offering reliable measurements of video quality as experienced by viewers. Combining this with VEGA’s in-depth video analysis provides users with a powerful platform for evaluating and optimizing video quality, ensuring seamless and engaging streaming experiences for audiences worldwide.

"VEGA has long been an essential tool for ensuring that encoded streams are standards-compliant and interoperable with industry-standard players. Adding VMAF quality checks incorporates a highly valuable component, as VMAF has demonstrated the highest correlation with human Mean Opinion Score (MOS) comparisons, making it the most accurate metric for assessing subjective quality. It’s a metric I rely on daily in my consulting, training, and writing practices," said Jan Ozer, streaming learning center and contributing editor to Streaming Media Magazine.

Adding VMAF support to VEGA Media Analyzer offers significant benefits for media companies, broadcasters, and service providers, including enhanced perceptual accuracy, efficient quality control, and optimized streaming performance. VMAF scoring captures video quality as perceived by the human eye, ensuring that quality assessments are viewer-centric. This integration also automates quality assessments, enabling faster and more consistent results across a wide range of content. VMAF scores guide encoding and bitrate decisions, helping achieve the best quality-to-bitrate ratio and improving overall streaming efficiency.

"Today, media companies face the critical challenge of delivering high-quality video across a range of resolutions to meet diverse OTT streaming demands," said Anupama Anantharaman, vice president of product management at Interra Systems. "By integrating VMAF into VEGA Media Analyzer, we enable encoder and transcoder developers to assess video quality more efficiently. This integration provides actionable insights for encoding decisions that enhance viewer experience while maintaining operational efficiency."

Anantharaman added, "For streaming companies, delivering high-quality video is paramount. With this integration, they now have access to industry-standard quality benchmarks, allowing video engineers to optimize compression, reduce artifacts, and provide a viewing experience that meets the highest quality standards."

With VMAF now built into VEGA Media Analyzer, Interra Systems reaffirms its commitment to delivering best-in-class tools that meet the evolving needs of the video streaming industry. This integration allows video quality engineers and media professionals to make data-driven, perceptually accurate quality decisions that resonate with audiences.

More information about Interra Systems solutions can be found at www.interrasystems.com.

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About Interra Systems (www.interrasystems.com)
Interra Systems stands at the forefront of ensuring end-to-end quality assurance for the ever-evolving media landscape. Meeting the needs of media professionals, for every stage of the content life cycle — including in-depth video analysis, media QC and monitoring, and captioning — the company’s extensive one-stop-shop of advanced tools is engineered to streamline content preparation and delivery across all stages of both IP and OTT workflows.

Widely adopted globally, Interra Systems’ solutions power mission-critical operations for leading broadcasters and streaming service providers across the world. The company’s suite of award-winning products includes the enterprise-class BATON automated QC system; BATON Captions solution with live captioning and machine learning (ML) scoring capabilities; ORION content monitoring platforms for 24/7 quality assurance; and VEGA Media Analyzer for in-depth video inspection, debugging, and standards compliance.

As the dynamics of the media industry continue to shift, Interra Systems remains a pioneer in quality assurance – staying one step ahead of the evolving media landscape with solutions designed to meet the industry’s critical media QC and monitoring, captioning, and video analysis needs.

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