[Ffmpeg-devel] codec for real-time capturing

[Rich Felker]

On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 06:44:26PM +0100, Alex Beregszaszi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > > Hi, try huffyuv or ffv1. They should be quite fast and good for
> > > intermediate storage.
> > 
> > No, both are much slower than mjpeg, especially ffv1 which uses
> > arithmetic coding. These codecs should only be used for OCD people who
> > demand lossless.
> 
> Bitstream coding method is switchable between arithmetic coding and
> huffman.

Well it's still several times slower than mjpeg just because the
bitstream is larger. :)

Rich