Lagarith Lossless Video Codec

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Lagarith Lossless Video Codec	Lagarith is a lossless video codec. Lagarith offers excellent compression. Lagarith is able to operate in several colorspaces - RGB24, RGB32, RGBA, YUY2, and YV12. Also, Lagarith will never down-sample video, preventing inadvertent quality loss. For DVD video, the compression is typically only 10-30% better than Huffyuv. However, for high static scenes or highly compressible scenes, Lagarith significantly outperforms Huffyuv.	Free software v1.3.20 Download (author site) Download (direct link) 200KB Download old versions More info/downloads	9.5 (8.9) 6 votes Similar tools	Read 6 comments (5586869 views) Add comment Notify me
	Latest version: 1.3.20 (July 03, 2009) Download sites: Download from author site Download from mirror (direct link) (200KB) Supported operating systems: Windows Download old versions More information and other downloads: Download Lagarith Lossless Video Codec 64 bit version here Sections/Browse similar tools: Capture,  Codecs Alert me! when this software has been updated. Report this tool(dead link/new version out)	Click to enlarge screenshot
	Version history: Version 1.3.20 released on 7-03-2009 Fixed a bug that would cause the codec to crash when attempting to upsample YUY2 video with a width that was not a multiple of 4. Thanks to Zack Hartmann for reporting this and providing a sample video. Fixed a bug that prevented the configure dialog from showing up in Sony Vegas. Thanks to Adam S. for reporting this. Added a configure option to prevent Lagarith from upsampling video when decoding. Checking this option and having the mode set to RGB or RGBA will prevent Lagarith from performing any colorspace conversions. Thanks to Andrew Harrison for suggesting this option View entire changelog Similar tools/Alternative to Lagarith Lossless Video Codec: Alparysoft Lossless Video Codec,  Anime Studio,  FastCodec,  HuffYUV,  MLC lossless codec,  MSU Lossless Video Codec,  PICVideo MJPEG,  Toponoky Sponsored tools: Guides and How to's: No guides/tutorials, submit guides here. Acronyms / Also Known As: lagarith Report this tool(dead link/new version out)
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	OOPs, tripped on some bugs. YUY2 encoding of existing 720x480 clips gives green output. YV12 encoding crashes. Captures and RGB encoding work fine. The author is working on the problem. Version 1.3.12 is working and stable. Posted June 29, 2007 by grannyGeek. Tool version 1.3.13 using OS WinXP Ease of use 10 of 10 Functionality 7 of 10 Value for money 10 of 10 Overall score 9 of 10
	Some nice optimizations since 1.3.9. I can now use Lagarith to CAPTURE with no frame drop/inserts (3.2 ghz dual processors) I think Lagarith YUY2 and RGB possibly require dual processors, I got 90-105% cpu usage. But YV12 used cpu 65-85%, so might be usable for single-core with a fast cpu. Kudos to the author! Happy to be able to capture YV12 with a reliable codec. Posted June 25, 2007 by grannyGeek. Tool version 1.3.13 using OS WinXP Ease of use 10 of 10 Functionality 10 of 10 Value for money 10 of 10 Overall score 10 of 10
	This lossless codec is fast, compresses VERY well, and is stable. Huffy is probably a bit faster, but Lagarith compresses much better. You want this. Posted July 31, 2005 by soopafresh. Tool version 1.36 using OS WinXP Ease of use 10 of 10 Functionality 10 of 10 Value for money 10 of 10 Overall score 10 of 10
	This version now works perfect with Vegas 6.0, no more 99% cpu usage. Very good codec... the BEST for compression with alpha channel. It compress a lot! A Must-Have for FX editors. Posted June 12, 2005 by Dermetzel. Tool version 1.3.5 using OS WinXP Ease of use 10 of 10 Functionality 10 of 10 Value for money 10 of 10 Overall score 9 of 10
	Vegas 6 uses 99% of CPU when I import a video with alpha channel using this codec. But, it compress a lot!! Posted May 08, 2005 by Dermetzel. Tool version 1.3.4 using OS WinXP Ease of use 10 of 10 Functionality 5 of 10 Value for money 10 of 10 Overall score 7 of 10
	Very nice codec! I used it with VirtualDub after tansfering my DV video. Great for editing DV in one program and exporting it, so you can use a differnt DVD encoder without loosing quality. Definitly a keeper. Posted March 30, 2005 by J. Baker. Tool version 1.3.2 using OS WinXP Ease of use 10 of 10 Functionality 10 of 10 Value for money 10 of 10 Overall score 10 of 10
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