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Royalty Free AV Data for Benchmarking?

Posted by Cliff on from the free-data-for-free-benchmarks dept.

Foredecker asks: "I'm developing some audio and video encoding benchmarks. (yes, they will be open source), and I need royalty free high quality audio and video. Unfortunately, I can't simply rip CD's and DVD's for distribution. I need to distribute the content with the benchmark to provide a consistent data set. I'd like both stereo and 5:1 audio and regular and high-def video. Anyone have any ideas where I can get such content?"

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  1. College student videos. by OwnerOfWhinyCat · · Score: 4, Informative

    All over the U.S. aspiring young "film people" make all kinds of cute little shorts. They would love the exposure; most would be glad to release under the GPL, or GDL, or whatever public license you want.

    If you need some good cartoon footage I saw a link to a short with a little rodent scurrying about the house in a translucent ball around here somewhere....

  2. CGTalk.com by NanoGator · · Score: 4, Informative

    Try going to the forums area of www.CGTalk.com and ask over there. It's a website dedicated to computer generated art and animation. There are lots of professionals there who work at tv/movie/game studios. I imagine you'd be able to find people willing to donate what you need. (or at least put you in touch with somebody who might)

    It's worth a shot. ;)

    --
    "Derp de derp."
  3. media.xiph.org by rillian · · Score: 4, Informative

    We've been collecting what freely-redistributable clips we can find at media.xiph.org. There's not much there, but it's still worth a look. Particularly interesting for your case are some public domain HD test clips made available by TU München LDV. Of course, they're quite short given the size of uncompressed HD frames.

    Please let us know if you find anything else, that's exactly what the collection is for.

    In general, the suggestions of contacting copyright holders for permission is the best one. There are various collections of test clips and movies online, but they're generally either small and without audio, or already compressed. Plus, the more content we get under free licenses, the better the world will be. :-)

    The Internet Archive does have a collection of movies with contact information, so that might be an easy place to start.

    Good luck!