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MSU Lossless Video Codec

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Development status
  
Unmaintained

Operating system
  
Microsoft Windows

Written in
  
C++

Platform
  
IA-32

Developer(s)
  
Dmitry Vatolin, Dmitry Popov, Sergey Putilin

Preview release
  
0.6.0 / September 19, 2005; 11 years ago (2005-09-19)

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.

Description

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 is unavailable. The source code of codec is unavailable.

Despite its name, the codec has several lossy modes.

References

MSU Lossless Video Codec Wikipedia