Lossless Video?
June 11, 2007 – 10:41 pmSo far I’m really happy with FLAC as a lossless audio codec. It’s awesome to be able to create flawless MP3s and the security that in the future I can transcode the FLAC to whatever the new digital music codec standard becomes. Music on my iPod sounds fantastic and I have a perfect audio collection. I’ll be getting a huge hard drive, putting it in my server and the data vault will be complete.
This leads me to another project idea: lossless video. Are there any good lossless video codecs? I did a bit of googling and found MSU, CorePNG, HuffYUV and a fork of HuffYUV called “Lagarith”. I realize a DVD is lossy to begin with (compared to HD), but I thought perhaps there is a way to achieve 30-50% size reduction for archiving purposes. This would yield a perfect DVD when decompressed, but would be more practical for hard drive storage. Any suggestions?
My research leads me to believe that this is not really possible, but surely I’m not the only one that wants this.
