Five open films you are allowed to stream, embed, cut up and put on your own site. No stock library terms, no takedown risk. Each one is hosted here in every quality from 240p up, so you can point a player at a real adaptive stream instead of a file on your desktop.
Live action and computer graphics in the same frame, shot in Amsterdam. The mix of real skin tones, hard sunlight and rendered robots makes it unusually hard to encode, which is why it turns up in so many codec comparisons.
Film grain and skin toneBright outdoor highlightsFast camera movesCG composited over live action
A fourteen minute animated short with snow, fog, firelight and a lot of very dark scenes. The dark scenes are the useful part: weak encoders fall apart there and produce banding you can see from across the room.
Dark scenes and shadow detailBanding in gradientsSnow and fogWide dynamic range
The most used test video ever made. Saturated colour, soft fur, a lot of green, and a frame rate that stays steady throughout. If a player or a pipeline is broken, this is usually the file people notice it with.
Saturated colourFine detail in fur and grassSmooth motionA known reference everyone has seen
Painterly animation with long, slow landscape shots and a lot of sky. Netflix re-graded this one in Dolby Vision for its own open content set, which tells you how much range the picture actually holds.
Wide gradients in skiesSlow pansColour grading and HDRLarge flat areas that show blocking
Under four minutes, which makes it the one to reach for when you want to run a test and see the result in the same coffee break. Sharp edges, flat colour fills and a lot of hair.
Short enough for quick runsHard edges and flat fillsHair and fine strandsStudio lighting
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