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Huffyuv is a very fast, lossless Win32 video codec. "Lossless" means that the output from the decompressor is bit-for-bit identical with the original input to the compressor. "Fast" means a compression throughput of up to 38 megabytes per second on my 416 MHz Celeron.
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Latest version: 2.1.1 (December 22, 2003) Download sites: Download from author site Windows More information and other downloads: Download HuffYUV 64 bit version here Download HuffYUV_MT here, Huffyuv with MultiThreaded support. Sections/Browse similar tools: Capture, Codecs Alert me! when this software has been updated. |
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N/A Similar tools/Alternative to HuffYUV: Alparysoft Lossless Video Codec, Lagarith Lossless Video Codec, MLC lossless codec, MSU Lossless Video Codec, PICVideo MJPEG, Toponoky Sponsored tools: Guides and How to's:
How to capture AVI and maintain audio sync with iuVCR - Read View all guides with guide description here How to capture AVI with an ATI AIW card - Read SatStorm 's Advices: A 12 step NTSC to PAL conversion guide - Read Acronyms / Also Known As: HuffYUV_MT
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The issue of HuffYUV's losslessness has be settled: http://forum.videohelp.com/topic361833.html#1929839 It's lossless unless you use the RGB->YUY2 option.
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The author says the output is bit for bit identical to the input (unless you use the lossy compression), so who are you going to believe him - or someone here? Its the best non lossy solution i have seen so far.
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Using huff for 4 years now, no problems at all. Caution: there's no such thing as a truly "lossless" AVI compressor other than plain uncompressed AVI. However, if you do any cleanup of the huff-compressed original and/or take multiple steps to compress/recompress the video, the grain and noise levels increase noticeably -- apparently no detail gets lost, but salt-and-pepper "simmer" on subsquent compressions is easy to see, especially in darker areas of the image. Not perfect, but it still seems to be the AVI compressor of choice. Only thing better is uncompressed AVI.
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Disappointing. This version offers the promise of vastly improved disk utilization (3 times smaller file sizes). However, every file I've created ends up crashing Adobe Premiere (6.0, 6.5), VirtualDub, TMPGEnc, and other processing programs when I load the file. One can encode, but not use the file. This makes the encoder (beta) worthless. This has happened on multiple machines as well. Stick with 2.1.1. :-(
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I'm using it with iuVCR for captures, using the fastest compression settings (with a BT878 chip, which should be YUY2), field threshold of 288 lines (PAL) and no other boxes ticked. I'm getting 704x675 captures perfectly, and in sync. You need a fast processor - despite being very quick and mainly for throughput, it will still eat processor cycles - it should be under 50% usage to capture without frame drop (I'm using an XP2500). I advise you use a fast drive with a clean partition for best performance, otherwise you can get some frame drop. Optimizing Windows also helps - kill background tasks that might access the drives. I have found it's not a good editing codec. I've found it won't always stitch together, and I've also had no luck recompressing. Maybe some of the other lossless codecs out there may be better for editing/reprocessing, but they are all slower, so not good for capturing.
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Some of you seem to have problems which I con not confirm. Either with VirtualDubMod or with Virtual VCR it works perfectly well. The quality of the files is amazing. I use it to record tv-programs and sometimes wonder why everting seems to be so easy.
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This codec is the best for speed and quality.It is completely lossless,unlike PIC Video MJEG(Which I would recommend using if you dont have much space on your hard drive and have a slow PC with little RAM) Oh by the way I am talking about Huffyuv version 2.1.1 .The newer version is no good as far as I'm concerned,when I tried to open the outputted AVI,Windows Explorer would crash.I tried 'Always suggest RGB as the output format'option but it made no difference. STICK TO HUFFYUV 2.1.1
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I downloaded the latest codec the other day, without noticing all the problems listed here. I was converting some divx .avi's to huffyuv for editing and for later conversion to MPEG2. Anyway, Virtualdub had no problem encoding the files, but when I would go into Windows Explorer, and JUST HIGHLIGHT the file, Explorer would immediately crash. I was just trying to check the file out to make sure everything was in sync. It will not play in Windows Media player (v9) and would still crash Explorer. It took me a while to figure out that it was the codec. I installed an earlier version and now I don't have any problems. It is always possible that "always suggest RGB format for ouptut" would work as suggested by dreze, but I'm going to stick with the previous setting.
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Hi, I had, I think, the same problem as the one reported by migf1. I solved it by forcing "always suggest RGB format for ouptut", as described in http://www.neuron2.net/www.math.berkeley.edu/benrg/huffyuv.html Now, I can use video captured with VirtualVCR without problems in Adobe premiere pro. Hope this can help.
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Same here. The new version doesn't seem to work with MSP7 either. Stick with the old one.
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Ive just tried this version out it seemed to of worked when captured with huffy 2.20 and can read it in Media Player and VirtualDub but when i tried to edit it in premiere premiere wouldnt let me put it in the timeline to edit the clip. Also when i edited it in VirtualDub then saved it with huffy 2.20 it became unuseable. I would recommend to stick with the original huffyuv 2.1.1 version as it work excellent for me. and if a new version comes out i would recommend to test it thoroughly to make sure it works 110%. Also if you dont see an improvement in a newer version it might also pay to stick with 2.1.1 as it works. Tried it in win98se and xp
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On my Win98SE system, I usually don't capture with HuffYUV, but recompressing in VirtualDub to version 2.1.1 was highly reliable. The 'files' produced by v2.2.0, however, are completely unusable. Stick with version 2.1.1.
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Before I went to hardware mpeg2 captures I used HuffyUV with VirtualDub to capture AVI's. It cut my AVI's sizes in half with no loss in quality. Saved me alot of harddisk space.
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