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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Contacts

E-mail: videocodec-testing@graphics.cs.msu.ru