What's the best compression option for this video?

[aimeeandbeatles]

I have a large uncompressed (as in RGB) video file. It's about 33 GB, just under 20 minutes long, at 720x480. I'd rather not have that giant file lugging around my hard drive. After I do some editing stuff, what's the best codec to use for storing the original video in the best quality/size ratio?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Can somebody please tell me about huffyuv (That actually looks funny when i type it) or Lagarith? Here's some sites which sadly I cannot seem to understand.
http://neuron2.net/www.math.berkeley.edu/benrg/huffyuv.html
http://lags.leetcode.net/codec.html

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Since nobodys answered, I decided to try it myself. Here's the info for the original file:

Spoiler :

General
Complete name                            : D:\Videos\Capture\hl 2013-02-17 02-58-52-767.avi
Format                                   : AVI
Format/Info                              : Audio Video Interleave
Format profile                           : OpenDML
File size                                : 33.0 GiB
Duration                                 : 19mn 58s
Overall bit rate                         : 237 Mbps

Video
ID                                       : 0
Format                                   : RGB
Codec ID                                 : 0x00000000
Codec ID/Info                            : Basic Windows bitmap format. 1, 4 and 8 bpp versions are palettised. 16, 24 and 32bpp contain raw RGB samples
Duration                                 : 19mn 58s
Bit rate                                 : 249 Mbps
Width                                    : 720 pixels
Height                                   : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 3:2
Frame rate                               : 30.000 fps
Standard                                 : NTSC
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 24.000
Stream size                              : 34.7 GiB

Audio
ID                                       : 1
Format                                   : PCM
Format settings, Endianness              : Little
Format settings, Sign                    : Signed
Codec ID                                 : 1
Duration                                 : 19mn 58s
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 1 411.2 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
Sampling rate                            : 44.1 KHz
Bit depth                                : 16 bits
Stream size                              : 202 MiB (1%)
Interleave, duration                     : 33 ms (1.00 video frame)

I'm going to encode each video with VirtualDub, using the encoders' default standards.

I've already got the Lagarith results already, I'll put it in the next post.

I would post encoding times but a) I forgot to save it and I'm too lazy to do it again, and b) It's not too much a deal for me, anyways I can leave it running when I sleep and c) It's not really a fair comparison as I'm doing other things while waiting for the video, so that may affect the fps.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Lagarith Lossless Video Codec

Spoiler :

General
Complete name                            : D:\Videos\hl 2013-02-17 02-58-52-767-Lagarith.avi
Format                                   : AVI
Format/Info                              : Audio Video Interleave
Format profile                           : OpenDML
File size                                : 9.64 GiB
Duration                                 : 19mn 58s
Overall bit rate                         : 69.1 Mbps
Writing library                          : VirtualDub build 32842/release

Video
ID                                       : 0
Format                                   : Lagarith
Codec ID                                 : LAGS
Duration                                 : 19mn 58s
Bit rate                                 : 67.6 Mbps
Width                                    : 720 pixels
Height                                   : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 3:2
Frame rate                               : 30.000 fps
Standard                                 : NTSC
Color space                              : RGB
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 6.524
Stream size                              : 9.44 GiB (98%)

Audio
ID                                       : 1
Format                                   : PCM
Format settings, Endianness              : Little
Format settings, Sign                    : Signed
Codec ID                                 : 1
Duration                                 : 19mn 58s
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 1 411.2 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
Sampling rate                            : 44.1 KHz
Bit depth                                : 16 bits
Stream size                              : 202 MiB (2%)
Interleave, duration                     : 33 ms (1.00 video frame)
Interleave, preload duration             : 500 ms

Sizes:
Original RGB: 33.0 GiB
Lagarith: 9.64 GiB

Huffyuv's encoding now, should be finished within a half-hour or so, I might get held up though

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Huffyuv

Spoiler :

General
Complete name                            : D:\Videos\hl 2013-02-17 02-58-52-767-huffyuv.avi
Format                                   : AVI
Format/Info                              : Audio Video Interleave
Format profile                           : OpenDML
File size                                : 13.2 GiB
Duration                                 : 19mn 58s
Overall bit rate                         : 94.7 Mbps
Writing library                          : VirtualDub build 32842/release

Video
ID                                       : 0
Format                                   : Huffman
Codec ID                                 : HFYU
Duration                                 : 19mn 58s
Bit rate                                 : 93.3 Mbps
Width                                    : 720 pixels
Height                                   : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 3:2
Frame rate                               : 30.000 fps
Standard                                 : NTSC
Color space                              : RGB
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 8.999
Stream size                              : 13.0 GiB (99%)

Audio
ID                                       : 1
Format                                   : PCM
Format settings, Endianness              : Little
Format settings, Sign                    : Signed
Codec ID                                 : 1
Duration                                 : 19mn 58s
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 1 411.2 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
Sampling rate                            : 44.1 KHz
Bit depth                                : 16 bits
Stream size                              : 202 MiB (1%)
Interleave, duration                     : 33 ms (1.00 video frame)
Interleave, preload duration             : 500 ms

Sizes:
Original RGB: 33.0 GiB
Lagarith: 9.64 GiB
Huffyuv: 13.0 GiB

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

tl;dr summary:

Original RGB (Uncompressed):
File size: 33.0 GiB
Video Bit rate: 249 Mbps

Lagarith:
File size: 9.64 GiB
Video Bit rate: 67.6 Mbps

Huffyuv:
File size: 13.2 GiB
Video Bit rate: 93.3 Mbps

 

[cardgame]

Have you tried converting it to an mp4 or other h.264 codec?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Actually I do have a h264 copy of the file, it's 300-some MB I believe. However I wanted to compress it with least lossiness as possible and actually I just wanted to try out the new codecs

 

[cardgame]

lossless is overrated imho