Filesizes of lossless video compression.

(Nearly) Lossless video compression is sometimes needed when working with multiple software: Save video to work with it in another software.

Instead of comparing the filesizes of this DivX movie I compressed it now with HuffYUV and other methods.

So it is the same Movie (= deinterlaced, 50fps) but with different compression methods.

Method % Comments 1)  DivX 93% 100% This 100% is the same 100% as in Method 1 here. This is what I consider as good enough for archiving and not too big for archiving. 2)  DivX 100% 266% How lossy is DivX? Should you use DivX 100% instead of HuffYUV? 3)  DV 1442% This is the original as on tape. It is not deinterlaced. Just for comparison reasons. 4)  Ligos Indeo 5.11 100% 713% I set Ligos to 100% and keyframe rate to "Every 500". This produces a very high quality movie, and one that can be played at 50 fps. Ligos Indeo has been known as Intel Indeo before. 5)  Ligos Raw R1.2 3998% Is this lossless compression? Please email me, if you know more. 6)  Uncompressed 10736% There is no reason why you should do this, except you don't have HuffYUV installed, 7)  HuffYuv 2.1.1 (best) 4772% Huffyuv is a free codec, that is very fast and can compress losslessly. It produces video, where every frame is a keyframe, thus very fast when you edit this type of video material. 8)  HuffYuv 2.1.1 (best+YUY2) 2496% This doesn't results in lossless video compression but is nearly lossless. 9)  HuffYuv 2.1.1 (best+alpha compression) 4772% No difference to method 7). 10)  HuffYuv 2.1.1 (best +YUY2 +alpha compression) 2496% No difference to method 8). 11)  HuffYuv 2.1.1 (fastest) 5651% Lossless compression mode of HuffYUV, but worse (=bigger) filesize. This is the choice when you want to capture on the fly. 12)  HuffYuv 2.1.1 (fastest +YUY2) 2750%   13)  HuffYuv 2.1.1 (fastest+alpha compression) 5651% No difference to method 11).