[MPlayer-users] Loss-less AVI

[Vladimir Mosgalin]

On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, D Richard Felker III wrote:

DRFI>> On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 20:33:33 -0300
DRFI>> Alvin Beach <alvinbeach at deepvision.ca> wrote:
DRFI>> 
DRFI>> > I have tried to use the huffyuv encoder but for some reason I can't
DRFI>> > get it to work.
DRFI>> 
DRFI>> Have you tried "-ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=huffyuv"? It worked for me
DRFI>> last time I tried it.
DRFI>
DRFI>huffyuv cannot be lossless, since the original video is rgb, and
DRFI>colorspace conversion is not one-to-one. Not to mention the 4:2:2 or
DRFI>4:2:0 downsampling...

It's only libavcodec's huffman that doesn't support rgb... but original
huffman codec supports it. Hm... VDub runs very well under wine, so one
can use it to create huffman-compressed video and then play it with
mplayer.

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Vladimir