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Old 20th September 2005, 01:51   #7  |  Link
Sawbones
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Originally Posted by neuron2
You have to understand the different types of codecs and what they are good for. Not all are good for distribution and playing.

For example, HUFYUV is lossless; it will not degrade the video. But its compression ratio is low. It is used as an intermediate compression and for capturing video.

AlparySoft Lossless also will not degrade the video but it is slow, so may not play smoothly on some machines.

You can also use uncompressed RGB in a container. That is usually very hard to play smoothly because the data rate is so high.

A good codec for general purpose final production, and thus for distribution and playing, is XviD.

Actually, "format" is a bit ambiguous. You might call Xvid a format. It's better to refer to "containers" and "codecs" to avoid confusion. AVI is a container (so is Matroska, etc.). HUFYUV is a codec, i.e., a type of video compression/decompression. Don't forget that the container has to hold the audio as well, which is usually also compressed.

Cool...

Thanks for all the info....
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