[MPlayer-users] mjpeg and mencoder

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 09:15:56AM +0100, Moritz Bunkus wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi.
> 
> > Cool.  I'm trying to basically get as close to lossless compression as I
> > can.  I can't do rawrgb, it's just too large.  However, why does something
> > like:
> 
> While translating the man page I've noticed that libavcodec now
> supports huffyuv (lossless compressionin YUV colorspace) - perhaps you
> could use that? I've used it under Windows for capturing TV and was
> quite happy with it. But I don't know how good it works in this
> incarnation.

>From my experience it's way too slow for realtime capture. I imagine
the yv12->422p conversion is partly responsible... Perhaps lavc should
at some point implement its own fast lossless 4:2:0 compression for
live capture rather than using a bad existing format.

Rich