The MSU Lossless Video Codec is a

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developed by the Graphics & Media Lab Video Group of

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. It was designed to provide space-effective lossless video compression. As of 2007 MSU had the second best compression ratio when compared to many other lossless video codecs, with the better result shown by

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codec.

Description

MSU Lossless Video Codec is available as a

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codec. It can be used from such applications as

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. Possible input formats are

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(

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), RGB32,

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, YUYV and

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. The codec is available

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for non-commercial use. the commercial license is unavailable. The

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of codec is unavailable. Despite its name, the codec has several

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modes.

Release history

References

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