Lossless codecs ..?

sithlord · 3 Jul 2012 at 00:30

Can anyone recommend a good lossless codec for recording gaming footage?

sithlord · 4 Jul 2012 at 14:36

Cheers Sin Chase.

I was playing around with Lagarith seems good but the file produced isn't compatible with Handbrake. Yeah Dxtory is cool much better than Fraps and its stupid 4GB limit.

Ive settled on HuffYUV in FFDShow.

Ive never understood what YV12 / YUY2 / RGB meant in regards to recording.

sithlord · 4 Jul 2012 at 16:02

bledd. said:
Just googled that, been removed

http://frapsforum.com/threads/new-fraps-no-4gb-limit.1225/

Wow took them long enough.

I love Dxtory too much to go back to Fraps now.

Cheers for the info fellas.

sithlord · 5 Jul 2012 at 00:07

Sin_Chase said:
Lagarith is not the best for editing, admittedly. It's more of an archive format. Premier, Vegas etc can all read it though. VLC cannot play it properly it for example but Media Player can.

Are you sure Handbrake cannot use it? I record in YV12 and Vidcoder can open and encode it perfectly (Vidcoder is basically a nicer front end of Handbrake)

Yeah I tried it.. Handbrake just keeps scanning and cant find anything..
have a go yourself see if it picks it your lagarith source : http://handbrake.fr/downloads.php

I found another good codec but its slow on my PC.... "FFV1". I only get 20fps encoding.

sithlord · 5 Jul 2012 at 12:20

Sin_Chase said:
Have you tried Vidcoder?

Nope, Im gonna download and have a play around with it