Lossless Video Codecs Comparison ‘2007
- Project head: Dr. Dmitriy Vatolin
- Testing, analysis: Iwan Seleznev
- Verification: Dr. Maxim Smirnov
Tested codecs
- Alpary
- ArithYuv
- AVIzlib
- CamStudio GZIP
- CorePNG
- FastCodec
- FFV1
- Huffyuv
- Lagarith
- LOCO
- LZO
- MSU Lab
- PICVideo
- Snow
- x264
- YULS
Comparison Content
The main goal of the performed comparison is getting answers on the following questions regarding lossless video codecs:
- What codec or codecs are best for video capture and video editing applications?
- What codec or codecs achieve the best compression ratio?
- What advantages multithreading gives to modern codecs supporting it?
Only absolutely lossless codecs were examined in this comparison. Only progressive test video sequences were used.
Main conclusions:
- In Video Capture and Video Editing Area the overall clear winner is Lagarith.
- In Maximum Compression area the overall winner is YULS.
- The most balanced and flexible codec is FFV1: relatively good speed and high compression for various presets.
The comparison paper is 130 pages long and contains a lot of graphs to facilitate analysis like this one:
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Lossless Codecs Comparison ‘2007 - PDF (1.71 Mb)
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Contacts
See Also
MSU Video Quality Measurement Tool: Picture types
VQMT 13.0 Online help: List of all picture types available in VQMT and their aliases
Call for HEVC codecs 2019
Fourteen modern video codec comparison
HEVC Video Codecs Comparison 2018 (Thirteen MSU Video Codec Comparison)
13th MSU video codecs comparison
HEVC Video Codecs Comparison 2017 (Twelfth MSU Video Codec Comparison)
12th MSU video codecs comparison
MSU Video Codec Comparisons (6 test of lossless, MPEG-4 and MPEG-4 AVC)
Call for HEVC codecs 2018