Video Codecs

MSU Screen Capture Lossless Codec

This codec is intended for lossless compression of video taken from computer screen. It may be used for making software presentations, video lessons and tutorials, recording video from games, etc. Gives the best compression ratio and works pretty fast. Works in RGB24, RGB16, accepts RGB32. Created completely by Dee Mon. Free for non-commercial use.

More information, test results and download you can find on its official page.

A fresh independent codecs comparison here: http://dai-videotutes.blogspot.com/2007/09/codec-comparison-test.html.

Here are some user feedbacks from doom9 forum:

Zarxrax:
I just want to say this is an amazing codec! I am creating some tutorial videos, and MSU Screen Capture codec compressed over 11 minutes of video at 800x600 24fps down to just 2MB!

tekNerd:
Works great for me in CamStudio! Quality excelent, min file size! This is Great!

GmorG McRoth:
Nice!
MSU codec beat even Techsmith screen capture codec
I made test on small screen recording in 24 fps (Recording lenght 0:49.66 min, grabbed in techsmith camtasia with techsmith codec, with no audio, resolution 1024x768 in 24bit color):

MSU Screen Capture Lossless Codec 1.0.avi        2,13 MB        2 186 KB
TechSmith Screen Capture Codec 2.06.avi          3,06 MB        3 138 KB
FM Screen Capture Codec 1.0.avi                  5,94 MB        6 090 KB
CAMstudio Lossless Codec 1.0.avi                 7,53 MB        7 714 KB
Lagarith 1.3.8.avi                               80,7 MB       82 712 KB
CorePNG 0.8.2.avi                                85,3 MB       87 358 KB
Alparysoft lossless codec 2.0.avi                107 MB       110 584 KB
uncompressed.avi                                 2,62 GB    2 748 582 KB

settings were set for max compression for every codec (null frames on for lagarith) and full lossless (no color conversion).
Also, MSU codec seemed to be fastest in bunch!
wery nice indeed

MSU Lossless Video Codec

This codec is intended for lossless video compression (used for saving master copies or intermediate rendering results). Provides the best compression ratio of all available codecs, but works quite slow. Project and ideas by Dmitry Vatolin, motion compensation and denoising by Sergey Putilin, compression algorithm and implementation by Dee Mon. Free for non-commercial use.

More information, test results and download you can find on its official page.

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