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.

MSU Lossless Video Codec

The codec is available free of charge for non-commercial use. the commercial license is unavailable. The source code of codec is unavailable.

MSU Lossless Video Codec

Despite its name, the codec has several lossy modes.

MSU Lossless Video Codec

Release history

References

Video codecs

Lossless compression algorithms