VC-2 Conformance Software

This is the manual for the VC-2 conformance testing software. This software is used to test implementations of the VC-2 video codec.

Specifically, this software tests conformance with the following SMPTE standards and recommended practices:

Note

Throughout this software and documentation, perenthesised references of the form ‘(1.2.3)’ refer to section numbers within the SMPTE ST 2042-1:2017 specification unless otherwise indicated.

This manual is split into two parts.

The first (shorter) part, User’s manual, is aimed at codec testers who wish to test a VC-2 codec implementation. This part includes software installation and codec testing procedures along with reference documentation for the tools provided.

The second (longer) part, Maintainer’s manual, is aimed at developers tasked with maintaining this software; codec testers can disregard this part. This section includes a general overview of the conformance software internals followed by detailed reference documentation on its various components.

Finally, you can find the source code for vc2_conformance on GitHub.

Note

This documentation is also available in PDF format.

Maintainer’s manual