VMAF, short for Video Multimethod Assessment Fusion, was developed by Netflix in 2016. It can be highly resource intensive, especially when it needs to be calculated multiple times per profile within a per-title encoding pipeline. The cost of quality assessment can potentially exceed the cost of the actual encoding process itself.

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