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Video engineers across the industry have been relying on a relatively small corpus of freely available video clips to train and test their codecs and algorithms,

and most of those clips didn’t look at all like your typical Netflix show.

“The content that they were using that was open was not really tailored to the type of content we were streaming,” recalled Anne Aaron.

“So, we created content specifically for testing in the industry.”

In 2016, Netflix released a 12-minute 4K HDR short film called #Meridian that was supposed to remedy this.

Meridian looks like a film noir crime story, complete with shots in a dusty office with a fan in the background, a cloudy beach scene with glistening water, and a dark dream sequence that’s full of contrasts.

Each of these shots has been crafted for video encoding challenges,
and the entire film has been released under a Creative Commons license.

The film has since been used by the Fraunhofer Institute and others to evaluate codecs,
and its release has been hailed by the Creative Commons foundation as a prime example of “a spirit of cooperation that creates better technical standards.”

theverge.com/2024/6/22/2417158

The Verge · Inside Netflix’s bet on advanced video encodingBy Janko Roettgers