[FFmpeg-devel] request for feedback on video codec idea

[Alexis Ballier]

On Wed, 14 Oct 2015 12:08:58 -0600
Roger Pack <rogerdpack2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Lacking a better place to debate this, I would like to ask some
> questions on a video codec idea...
> 
> The goal is basically to create a very fast lossless screen capture
> codec (i.e. in the input there will be lots of repeated "colors" of
> neighboring pixels, not a lot of dynamic content between frames).

You might want to try good old qtrle: rle is good for repeated pixels,
and qtrle has the ability to code "following N pixels come from previous
frame", which makes it good for screen capture. Not sure how it
compares these days, but 10 years ago it was still one of the best
options for screen capture iirc, esp. with low color depth (8 or 16bits
per pixel).

Alexis.