MSU Lossless Video Codec

MSU Lossless Video Codec

Developer(s)	Dmitry Vatolin, Dmitry Popov, Sergey Putilin
Preview release	0.6.0 / September 19, 2005 (2005-09-19)
Development status	Unmaintained
Written in	C++
Operating system	Microsoft Windows
Platform	IA-32
Size	157 KB
Available in	English
Type	lossless video codec
License	Proprietary, free for non-commercial use
Website	.html_en/index/ls-codec/video.ru.compressionwww

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,^[1] 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.

Regardless of its name the codec has several lossy modes.

Release history

Version	Date	Changes
0.6.0	02005-09-19-0000September 19, 2005	new compression algorithm implementation user interface cleanup
0.5.8	02005-03-20-0000March 20, 2005	improved Windows 98 support
0.5.6	02005-02-14-0000February 14, 2005	improved VirtualDub support
0.5.2	02005-02-06-0000February 6, 2005	YV12 support Adobe Premiere support speed settings possibility to avoid P-frames maximum I-frames configurability VirtualDub jobs support
0.2.4p	02004-10-01-0000October 1, 2004	Windows 98 support
0.2.4	02004-09-24-0000September 24, 2004	Initial public release

References

^ "Lossless Video Codecs Comparison 2007", MSU Graphics & Media Lab (Video Group), 2007, retrieved 2011-12-07

Multimedia compression and container formats

Video
compression

ISO/IEC	MJPEG Motion JPEG 2000 MPEG-1 MPEG-2 Part 2 MPEG-4 Part 2/ASP Part 10/AVC MPEG-H Part 2/HEVC

ITU-T	H.120 H.261 H.262 H.263 H.264 H.265

Others	Apple Video AVS Bink CineForm Cinepak Daala Dirac DV DVI FFV1 Huffyuv Indeo Microsoft Video 1 MSU Lossless Lagarith OMS Video Pixlet ProRes 422 ProRes 4444 QuickTime Animation Graphics RealVideo RTVideo SheerVideo Smacker Sorenson Video, Spark Theora VC-1 VC-2 VC-3 VP3 VP6 VP7 VP8 VP9 WMV XEB YULS

Audio
compression

ISO/IEC	MPEG-1 Layer III (MP3) MPEG-1 Layer II Multichannel MPEG-1 Layer I AAC HE-AAC AAC-LD MPEG Surround MPEG-4 ALS MPEG-4 SLS MPEG-4 DST MPEG-4 HVXC MPEG-4 CELP MPEG-D USAC

ITU-T	G.711 G.718 G.719 G.722 G.722.1 G.722.2 G.723 G.723.1 G.726 G.728 G.729 G.729.1

Others	ACELP AC-3 AMR AMR-WB AMR-WB+ ALAC Asao ATRAC CELT Codec2 DRA DTS EVRC EVRC-B FLAC GSM-HR GSM-FR GSM-EFR iLBC iSAC Monkey's Audio TTA True Audio MT9 A-law µ-law Musepack OptimFROG Opus OSQ QCELP RCELP RealAudio RTAudio SD2 SHN SILK Siren SMV Speex SVOPC TwinVQ VMR-WB Vorbis VSELP WavPack WMA

Image
compression

IEC, ISO, ITU-T	CCITT Group 4 JPEG JPEG 2000 JPEG XR Lossless JPEG JBIG JBIG2 PNG TIFF/EP TIFF/IT HEVC

Others	APNG DjVu EXR GIF ICER MNG PGF QTVR TIFF WBMP WebP

Containers

ISO/IEC	MPEG-PS MPEG-TS ISO base media file format MPEG-4 Part 14 Motion JPEG 2000 MPEG-21 Part 9 MPEG media transport

ITU-T	H.222.0 T.802

Others	3GP and 3G2 AMV ASF AIFF AVI AU Bink Smacker BMP DivX Media Format EVO Flash Video GXF IFF M2TS Matroska WebM MXF Ogg QuickTime File Format RatDVD RealMedia REDCODE RIFF WAV MOD and TOD VOB, IFO and BUP

See for methods and for codecs

Data compression software

Archivers with
compression
(comparison)

Free software	7-Zip Ark File Roller FreeArc Info-ZIP KGB Archiver PAQ PeaZip The Unarchiver (decompression only) tar UPX Xarchiver Zipeg ZPAQ

Freeware	Filzip IZArc LHA StuffIt Expander (decompression only) TUGZip ZipGenius

Commercial	ARC ALZip Archive Utility ARJ BetterZip JAR MacBinary PKZIP/SecureZIP PowerArchiver StuffIt WinAce WinRAR WinZip

Non-archiving
compressors

Audio
compression
(comparison)

Lossy	Fraunhofer FDK AAC Nero AAC Codec Freeware Advanced Audio Coder (FAAC) Helix DNA Producer l3enc LAME TooLAME libavcodec libcelt libopus libspeex Musepack libvorbis Windows Media Encoder

Lossless	ALAC FLAC libavcodec Monkey's Audio mp4als OptimFROG Shorten TTA (True Audio) WavPack

Video
compression
(comparison)

Lossy

MPEG-4 ASP	3ivx DivX Nero Digital FFmpeg HDX4 Xvid

H.264 / MPEG-4 AVC	CoreAVC Blu-code DivX FFmpeg Nero Digital QuickTime x264

HEVC	DivX x265

Others	CineForm Cinepak Daala DNxHD Helix DNA Producer Indeo libavcodec Schrödinger (Dirac) SBC Sorenson VP7 libtheora libvpx Windows Media Encoder

Lossless

FFV1
Huffyuv
Lagarith
MSU Lossless
YULS

See also: and

Categories

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MSU Lossless Video Codec