MSU Lossless Video Codec
Video codec
The MSU Lossless Video Codec is a video codec developed by the Graphics & Media Lab Video Group of Moscow State University. 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 YULS codec.
01Description
MSU Lossless Video Codec is available as a Video for Windows codec. It can be used from such applications as VirtualDub or Adobe Premiere. Possible input formats are RGB24 (RGB), RGB32, YUY2, YUYV and YV12.
The codec is available free of charge for non-commercial use. As of 23 November 2011 the commercial license and the source code of this codec is unavailable.
Despite its name, the codec has several lossy modes.
02Release history
| Version | Date | Changes |
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| 0.6.0 | September 19, 2005 |
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| 0.5.8 | March 20, 2005 |
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| 0.5.6 | February 14, 2005 |
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| 0.5.2 | February 6, 2005 | |
| 0.2.4p | October 1, 2004 |
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| 0.2.4 | September 24, 2004 |
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Sources and credits
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- MSU Lossless Video Codec settings panel.png by Unknown author, Fair use
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