[MPlayer-users] Loss-less AVI

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 07:47:00PM -0400, Charles Philip Chan wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]

> On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 20:33:33 -0300
> Alvin Beach <alvinbeach at deepvision.ca> wrote:
> 
> > I have tried to use the huffyuv encoder but for some reason I can't
> > get it to work.
> 
> Have you tried "-ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=huffyuv"? It worked for me
> last time I tried it.

huffyuv cannot be lossless, since the original video is rgb, and
colorspace conversion is not one-to-one. Not to mention the 4:2:2 or
4:2:0 downsampling...

Rich