by Gimpy » Fri Mar 28, 2003 5:53 pm
First of all, I disagree with ErMac saying it would be useless, because I specifically asked about because I do have a use for it. That use is for a video stream with frames that consists of very few colors, and large solid blocks of color that don't change much over time. As an example of one of these streams, I compressed it with HUFFYUV and I believe it was 800+ MB. I then compressed it with DivX, CBR 6000 Kbps, and it was 9 MB, with no noticeable quality loss, however I wouldn't use DivX for editing A) because it crashes premiere all the time, and B) because I'm anal about quality and just knowing that DivX is lossy makes me uncomfortable, even though I couldn't see any quality loss in even the frames with the most motion. Basically this is a video stream of frames that would compress better gifs than as jpegs, if you know what I mean. The thing is that a whole lot of space is wasted because of the lack of interframe compression. In fact, right now, I'm using it as a sequence of numbered LZW compressed TIFFs. Believe it or not they take up about a third of the disk space that the HUFFYUV avi did.
There are only 10 types of people in the world: Those who know binary and those who don't.