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GAP
13th October 2021, 23:59
While I had heard about the other videos containers existed, I had not heard of this container (https://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php/DosBox_Capture_Codec) until a fairly recently. I normally use lossless codecs with an AVI container prior to converting to MP4 or MKV but emulators like DOSBox or Virtualbox use ZMBV as alternative to AVI. Uncompressed AVI is too big for any computer but I am unfamiliar territory with ZMBV. Is this container good for lossless compression? And can you convert it to other containers?

Asmodian
14th October 2021, 04:23
ZMBV isn't a container, it is a codec. It usually uses the AVI container, so I don't see how it is an alternative to AVI. :confused:

It is an alternative to huffyuv or UTVideo, etc. FFmpeg does support it, so it would be easy to convert it to other formats.

GAP
14th October 2021, 19:58
My mistake then. Thanks for responding.