[MEncoder-users] 16 bit greyscale lossless codec

[Kristian Nilssen]

I have scientific data in the form of 16 bit greyscale images which I 
need to package up into an avi (on linux) and send to a windows box for 
viewing / further processing. I can convert the images to RGB png files 
and create an avi but I really need to create an avi with 16 bit grey 
scale data (preferrably lossless), not 24bit RGB data. Is this possible? 
I think I read somewhere that H264 can do lossless greyscale, but how do 
i find out what options to pass to mencoder for this?