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Codec Comparison

Video description Colorspace Resolution, Frames Huffyuv size (MB) % of uncompressed size Lagarith size (MB) % of uncompressed size % of Huffyuv size
Purely random noise RGB24 720 x 480, 400 Crashed
NA
396
100.25
NA
High Static video RGB24 720 x 480, 81 147 183.5 65.1 81.3 44.3
Simple grayscale credits RGB24 720 x 480, 400 106 26.8 6.06 1.5 5.7
Raw DVD video (Berserk Vol 5) RGB24 720 x 480, 400 174 44.0 160 40.4 91.9
Filtered DVD video (Berserk Vol 5, same section) RGB24 720 x 480, 400 163 41.2 135 34.1 82.8
AMV Master copy (Cloud Connected AMV) RGB24 720 x 480, 7570 2772 37.1 1766 23.6 63.7
Lossy compressed source (Manga Maniac AMV) RGB24 640 x 480, 3792 1280 38.4 758 22.7 59.2
Raw DVD video (Sailor Moon Vol 5) YUY2

720 x 480
2000

485 36.8 394 29.9 81.2
Raw DVD video (Sailor Moon Vol 5) YV12 720 x 480
2000
Not Supported NA 319 32.3 NA
Lossy compressed source with Luminace-based Alpha RGBA 720 x 480
1278
691 41.0 482 28.6 69.8

Comparison with other codecs. The video used was part of chapter 7 from "The Boondock Saints" (live action). The video clip was 1037 frames long, 720 x 272 (Letterbox was cropped), and used YV12 colorspace. All codecs were set to maximum compresssion, and delta frames enabled if applicable.

Codec File size Percent of uncompressed
Uncompressed YV12 Size 291 MB 100%
FFV1 55.2 MB 19%
Lagarith 63.7 22%
Alparysoft (Logo-ed video) 65.6 22.5%
CorePNG 67.0 23%
Huffyuv YV12 127.0 43.6%