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Huffyuv is a very fast, lossless Win32 video codec. "Lossless" means that the output from the decompressor is bit-for-bit identical with the original input to the compressor. "Fast" means a compression throughput of up to 38 megabytes per second on my 416 MHz Celeron. Read the readme.txt in the zip file how to install it.
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Download HuffYUV 2.1.1 64-bit 24KB Win64
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Download HuffYUV_MT here, Huffyuv with MultiThreaded support.
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How to capture AVI and maintain audio sync with iuVCR
- ReadHow to capture AVI with an ATI AIW card
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Run these commands to install BOTH 32bit and 64bit on the same Windows 64bit machine:
32bit huffyuv:
rundll32 C:\Windows\SysWOW64\setupapi.dll,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 0 C:\huffyuv-2.1.1\huffyuv.inf
64bit huffyuv:
rundll32 C:\Windows\System32\setupapi.dll,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 0 C:\huffyuv64\huffyuv.inf
Ensure paths point to correct huffyuv version. Now both VirtualDub (32bit) and Premiere CS6 (64bit) works for me.
Hope that helps someone.
32bit huffyuv:
rundll32 C:\Windows\SysWOW64\setupapi.dll,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 0 C:\huffyuv-2.1.1\huffyuv.inf
64bit huffyuv:
rundll32 C:\Windows\System32\setupapi.dll,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 0 C:\huffyuv64\huffyuv.inf
Ensure paths point to correct huffyuv version. Now both VirtualDub (32bit) and Premiere CS6 (64bit) works for me.
Hope that helps someone.
Review by Bassquake on
May 28, 2016 Version: 2.1.1
OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10
Functionality: 8/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 8/10
Just an update on my previous post. I've experienced the same thing with Lagarith. So maybe it's a Sony Vegas issue? More tests needed...
Review by rgs_uk on
Apr 23, 2011 Version: 2.1.1
OS: Vista Ease of use: 10/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
I'm a huge fan of HuffyUV and have been using it for years for capturing and editing. I did some tests in Sony Vegas, encoding the test image provided here:
http://www.adamwilt.com/pix-gens.html#DVtest1
I encoded a five second clip. Loaded the resulting file into Vegas and added a caption 'copy01' - so Vegas was forced to re-encode rather than it doing a 'no recompression' save. I then encoded that, loaded it back in, changed the caption to 'copy02' so I could keep track and so on...
Using the convert to YUY option I found there was slight quality loss on each additional encode with the chroma moving to the left slightly (one pixel?).
In the other modes - predict left, predict median and so on - there was no loss whatsoever. I went up to eight re-encodes using predict left/predict left and stopped, because it was obvious there was no loss. I don't know how anyone could see increased grain or a change of colour in this mode.
Convert to YUY gives a file that is about half the size but it seems you take a small quality hit right from the first capture/encode, compared to the other compression options.
I'm not sure why other people reckon that Convert to YUY is 'lossless'. Maybe they are just cutting the video and resaving which, as I already mentioned, results in a no recompression frame-for-frame save in some software? As soon as you add filters or effects you are reencoding.
http://www.adamwilt.com/pix-gens.html#DVtest1
I encoded a five second clip. Loaded the resulting file into Vegas and added a caption 'copy01' - so Vegas was forced to re-encode rather than it doing a 'no recompression' save. I then encoded that, loaded it back in, changed the caption to 'copy02' so I could keep track and so on...
Using the convert to YUY option I found there was slight quality loss on each additional encode with the chroma moving to the left slightly (one pixel?).
In the other modes - predict left, predict median and so on - there was no loss whatsoever. I went up to eight re-encodes using predict left/predict left and stopped, because it was obvious there was no loss. I don't know how anyone could see increased grain or a change of colour in this mode.
Convert to YUY gives a file that is about half the size but it seems you take a small quality hit right from the first capture/encode, compared to the other compression options.
I'm not sure why other people reckon that Convert to YUY is 'lossless'. Maybe they are just cutting the video and resaving which, as I already mentioned, results in a no recompression frame-for-frame save in some software? As soon as you add filters or effects you are reencoding.
Review by rgs_uk on
Feb 18, 2011 Version: 2.1.1
OS: Vista Ease of use: 10/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
The issue of HuffYUV's losslessness has be settled:
http://forum.videohelp.com/topic361833.html#1929839
It's lossless unless you use the RGB->YUY2 option.
http://forum.videohelp.com/topic361833.html#1929839
It's lossless unless you use the RGB->YUY2 option.
Review by jagabo on
Mar 26, 2009 Version: 2.1.1
OS: WinXP Ease of use: 9/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
The author says the output is bit for bit identical to the input (unless you use the lossy compression), so who are you going to believe him - or someone here?
Its the best non lossy solution i have seen so far.
Its the best non lossy solution i have seen so far.
Review by branch on
Mar 23, 2009 Version: 2.1.1
OS: WinXP Ease of use: 8/10
Functionality: 9/10
Value for money: 9/10
Overall: 9/10
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