Lagarith Lossless, not HuffYUB

Willen · Post by **Willen** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 6:12 am

At least with the version of Lagarith that comes with the AMVapp, I have issues with video corruption and noticably slower performance. I should try to DL and use the newest version since eliminating or reducing the amount of colorspace conversions is a good thing.

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 7:05 am

Yes there are no issues with stability nor backwards compatability. Every single release of lagarith is backwards compatable.

Minion · Post by **Minion** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 7:49 am

i use lagarith. havn't touched huffyuv is a long time. lagarith is just better. period

DJ_Izumi · Post by **DJ_Izumi** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 7:54 am

If reliability is an issue, has anyone here ever experianced ANY form of unreliability from Lagarith?

Keeper of Hellfire · Post by **Keeper of Hellfire** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 8:18 am

Willen wrote:At least with the version of Lagarith that comes with the AMVapp, I have issues with video corruption and noticably slower performance.

This should have been answered your question.

Beside this, as I started making AMVs, HD space was a big issue (less than 5GB). I tested both, HuffYUV and Lagarith. Despite producing larger files I decided for HuffYUV. So you can guess that I had issues with Lagarith. Unfortunatly I don't remember which.

Fairy_of_Fortune · Post by **Fairy_of_Fortune** » Thu May 25, 2006 4:55 pm

I don't know if it's okay to post my question here, I just give it a try...
I'm working with Adobe Premiere 6.0/6.5 and also I've always had the codec problem. Until now I've used the Divx MPEG-4 Low-Motion codec to compress my videos with VirtualDub, simply because it was the only one I've found which ran smoothly in Premiere. But the quality isn't exactly the best. So now I've come across this Lagarith and HuffYUV codec and tried it with Lagarith... my problem is: the videos aren't running smoothly. Neither in any player nor in Adobe. It's the same with HuffYUV. I don't know if my computer isn't fast enough or anything... or I'm just stupid. *laughs* Can anybody help?

DJ_Izumi · Post by **DJ_Izumi** » Thu May 25, 2006 4:57 pm

It's likely that your hard drive is slow and it can't read the files fast enough at full frames. You can rest assured they won't lag when going into an encoder and such, but real time playback of either files could be problematic. Especially if you have a slower drive and system

Fairy_of_Fortune · Post by **Fairy_of_Fortune** » Fri May 26, 2006 3:43 am

I have an AMD Duron processor with 1,2 GHz and 512 MB RAM and that's not enough?

Willen · Post by **Willen** » Fri May 26, 2006 5:14 am

Fairy_of_Fortune wrote:I have an AMD Duron processor with 1,2 GHz and 512 MB RAM and that's not enough?

The processor is barely enough, and the RAM is also barely there. But what DJ_Izumi suggested that your HARD DRIVE is not up to the task. You'll either need to defrag it and make sure that there is a decent amount of space on there for a scratch file or it might be time to add another HDD of the 7200rpm variety. Adding more RAM might also help. Video editing is pretty memory intensive and another 512MB if your system can handle it, is recommended.