Uncompressed Video

[zn]

Hello, I have a few questions about uncompressed video, will be good if you can share your experience:

1. What codecs can be used to store uncompressed video? In ffmpeg I can only find YUV (or separate image files) - this is what we have?

2. What containers can be used to store uncompressed video? I was surprised that yuv stream will not work in MKV, only works from AVI.

3. What is best way to store uncompressed video, so it will be most compatible? YUV in AVI didn't work from default XP WMP, anyone tried it in Vista/7/MACOSX?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

1. Uncompressed is uncompressed, so no Codec (Compressor/Decompressor) is used for obvious reasons. But maybe you aren't looking for uncompressed, but for "lossless" compression?

2. There is no general container limitation. AVI files can store uncompressed YUV or RGB data for sure!

3. The best way to store uncompressed video probably is a "raw" YUV file or Y4M (YUV for MPEG). But I'd prefer lossless compression, such as HuffYUV, FFV1, Lagarith or MSU Lossless.

[Blue_MiSfit]

Well, there are no "codecs" per say, but there are plenty of different ways to store uncompressed video, like with the Blackmagic codecs.

Uncompressed is almost never a good idea :) What are you trying to actually accomplish?

~MiSfit