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Ideas, implementation: Dmitry Popov

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[13.02.2007] Version 1.2.
[02.04.2006] Version 1.1.
[24.03.2006] Version 1.0.
Download! (v1.2)

This codec is free for non-commercial use.
To use it in commercial projects buy a license here.

Changes in version 1.2:

Changes in version 1.1:

This codec is intended for lossless compression of video taken from computer screen. It may be used for making software presentations, video lessons and tutorials, recording video from games etc.

In the future this codec may become a part of MSU Lossless Video Codec.

Several codecs compression ratio comparison

We've compared results of proposed algorithm with other available codecs results.

Comparison was made on several sequences captured in DOSBox emulator from several games (UFO, Jazz Jackrabbit, Test Drive 3, Ultima 6 and Lemmings). All these games except Lemmings ran in 256 colors mode, Lemmings ran in 16 colors mode. Sequences descriptions:

Caption	Resolution and number of frames
geoscape.avi	320x200, 1971
jazz.avi	320x200, 1974
td3.avi	320x200, 876
ultima6.avi	320x200, 2190
vgalemmi.avi	640x350, 4372

Here are a couple of frames from those sequences so you can understand what kind of video we're talking about:

Codecs used in comparison are shown in the chart below. In this chart for each codec it is shown how many times better than Huffyuv it compressed file, i.e. Huffyuv_file_size / This_codec_file_size. In all the codecs maximum compression settings were chosen.

Initial sequences were compressed with Zipped Motion Block Video codec in 8 bits per pixel mode, this is why it's compression ratio is so high. All the other codecs including MSU Screen Capture Codec worked in RGB24 mode. This chart demonstrates significant advantage of codecs which use delta-frames compared to the codecs which use only intra frames.

We also compared our codec with TechSmith EnSharpen which "delivers the highest compression in the industry for screen recording and animated content" (link).
We took the video sequence (640х480, 214 frames, RGB16) used by TechSmith to demonstrate its superiority and compressed it with our codec 2 times better with the same key frame rate, even though EnSharpen worked in RGB16 and MSU Screen Capture worked in RGB24.
Resulting file: somewins.avi (150 KB).

A frame from this sequence:

Special thanks to Borg No. One for introducing ZMBV codec to us and inspiration to make a codec for this type of video.

Download

MSU Screen Capture Lossless Codec, version 1.2 from 13.02.2007

• MSU Screen Capture Lossless Codec 1.2, EXE installer (111kb)
• License for MSU VideoGroup Software.

Known problems and restrictions:

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