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MSU Lossless Video Codec

Developer(s)	Dmitry Vatolin, Dmitry Popov, Sergey Putilin

Preview release	0.6.0 / September 19, 2005; 19 years ago (2005-09-19)

Written in	C++
Operating system	Microsoft Windows
Platform	IA-32
Size	157 KB
Available in	English
Type	lossless video codec
License	Proprietary, free for non-commercial use
Website	www.compression.ru/video/ls-codec/index_en.html

The MSU Lossless Video Codec is a video codec developed by the Graphics & Media Lab Video Group of Moscow State University. It was designed to provide space-effective lossless video compression. As of 2007 MSU had the second-best compression ratio when compared to many other lossless video codecs, with the better result shown by YULS codec.

Description

MSU Lossless Video Codec is available as a Video for Windows codec. It can be used from such applications as VirtualDub or Adobe Premiere. Possible input formats are RGB24 (RGB), RGB32, YUY2, YUYV and YV12.

The codec is available free of charge for non-commercial use. As of 23 November 2011 the commercial license and the source code of this codec is unavailable.

Despite its name, the codec has several lossy modes.

Release history

Version	Date	Changes
0.6.0	September 19, 2005	new compression algorithm implementation user interface cleanup
0.5.8	March 20, 2005	improved Windows 98 support
0.5.6	February 14, 2005	improved VirtualDub support
0.5.2	February 6, 2005	YV12 support Adobe Premiere support speed settings possibility to avoid P-frames maximum I-frames configurability VirtualDub jobs support
0.2.4p	October 1, 2004	Windows 98 support
0.2.4	September 24, 2004	Initial public release

References

"Lossless Video Codecs Comparison 2007", MSU Graphics & Media Lab (Video Group), 2007, retrieved 2011-12-07

Multimedia compression and container formats

Video
compression

ISO, IEC, MPEG	DV MJPEG Motion JPEG 2000 MPEG-1 MPEG-2 Part 2 MPEG-4 Part 2 / ASP Part 10 / AVC Part 33 / IVC MPEG-H Part 2 / HEVC MPEG-I Part 3 / VVC MPEG-5 Part 1 / EVC Part 2 / LCEVC
ITU-T, VCEG	H.120 H.261 H.262 H.263 H.264 / AVC H.265 / HEVC H.266 / VVC
SMPTE	VC-1 VC-2 VC-3 VC-5 VC-6
TrueMotion and AOMedia	TrueMotion S VP3 VP6 VP7 VP8 VP9 AV1
Chinese Standard	AVS1 P2/AVS+(GB/T 20090.2/16) AVS2 P2(GB/T 33475.2,GY/T 299.1) HDR Vivid(GY/T 358) AVS3 P2(GY/T 368)
Others	Apple Video AVS Bink Cinepak Daala DVI FFV1 Huffyuv Indeo Lagarith Microsoft Video 1 MSU Lossless OMS Video Pixlet ProRes 422 4444 QuickTime Animation Graphics RealVideo RTVideo SheerVideo Smacker Sorenson Video/Spark Theora Thor Ut WMV XEB YULS

Audio
compression

ISO, IEC, MPEG	MPEG-1 Layer II Multichannel MPEG-1 Layer I MPEG-1 Layer III (MP3) AAC HE-AAC AAC-LD MPEG Surround MPEG-4 ALS MPEG-4 SLS MPEG-4 DST MPEG-4 HVXC MPEG-4 CELP MPEG-D USAC MPEG-H 3D Audio
ITU-T	G.711 A-law µ-law G.718 G.719 G.722 G.722.1 G.722.2 G.723 G.723.1 G.726 G.728 G.729 G.729.1
IETF	Opus iLBC Speex Vorbis FLAC
3GPP	AMR AMR-WB AMR-WB+ EVRC EVRC-B EVS GSM-HR GSM-FR GSM-EFR
ETSI	AC-3 AC-4 DTS
Bluetooth SIG	SBC LC3
Chinese Standard	AVS1 P10(GB/T 20090.10) AVS2 P3(GB/T 33475.3) Audio Vivid(GY/T 363) DRA(GB/T 22726) ExAC(SJ/T 11299.4)
Others	ACELP ALAC Asao ATRAC CELT Codec 2 iSAC Lyra MELP Monkey's Audio MT9 Musepack OptimFROG OSQ QCELP RCELP RealAudio RTAudio SD2 SHN SILK Siren SMV SVOPC TTA True Audio TwinVQ VMR-WB VSELP WavPack WMA MQA aptX aptX HD aptX Low Latency aptX Adaptive LDAC LHDC LLAC

Image
compression

IEC, ISO, IETF, W3C, ITU-T, JPEG	CCITT Group 4 GIF HEIC / HEIF HEVC JBIG JBIG2 JPEG JPEG 2000 JPEG-LS JPEG XL JPEG XR JPEG XS JPEG XT PNG TIFF TIFF/EP TIFF/IT
Others	APNG AV1 AVIF BPG DjVu EXR FLIF ICER MNG PGF QOI QTVR WBMP WebP

Containers

ISO, IEC	MPEG-ES MPEG-PES MPEG-PS MPEG-TS ISO/IEC base media file format MPEG-4 Part 14 (MP4) Motion JPEG 2000 MPEG-21 Part 9 MPEG media transport
ITU-T	H.222.0 T.802
IETF	RTP Ogg Matroska
SMPTE	GXF MXF
Others	3GP and 3G2 AMV ASF AIFF AVI AU BPG Bink Smacker BMP DivX Media Format EVO Flash Video HEIF IFF M2TS Matroska WebM QuickTime File Format RatDVD RealMedia RIFF WAV MOD and TOD VOB, IFO and BUP

Collaborations

Methods

Entropy
LPC
- ACELP
- CELP
- LSP
- WLPC
Lossless
Lossy
LZ
- DEFLATE
- LZW
PCM
- A-law
- µ-law
- ADPCM
- DPCM
Transforms
- DCT
- FFT
- MDCT
- Wavelet
  - Daubechies
  - DWT

Lists

See Compression methods for techniques and Compression software for codecs

Data compression software

Archivers with
compression
(comparison)

Free software	7-Zip Ark Expander FreeArc GNOME Archive Manager Info-ZIP KGB Archiver PAQ pax PeaZip XAD (decompression only) Xarchiver Zipeg ZPAQ
Freeware	Filzip LHA Lhasa (decompression only) StuffIt Expander (decompression only) The Unarchiver (decompression only) TUGZip ZipGenius
Commercial	ARC ALZip Archive Utility ARJ BetterZip MacBinary PKZIP/SecureZIP PowerArchiver StuffIt WinAce WinRAR WinZip

Non-archiving
compressors

Generic	bzip2 compress gzip lzip lzop pack rzip Snappy XZ Utils zstd
For code	UPX

Audio
compression
(comparison)

Lossy	AAC Fraunhofer FDK AAC Nero AAC Codec FAAC Helix DNA Producer MP3 l3enc LAME TooLAME libavcodec libcelt libopus libspeex Musepack libvorbis Windows Media Encoder
Lossless	ALAC FLAC libavcodec Monkey's Audio mp4als OptimFROG Shorten WavPack

Video
compression
(comparison)

Lossy

MPEG-4 ASP	3ivx DivX Nero Digital FFmpeg HDX4 Xvid
H.264	CoreAVC Blu-code DivX FFmpeg Nero Digital OpenH264 QuickTime x264
HEVC	DivX x265
Others	CineForm Cinepak Daala DNxHD Helix DNA Producer Indeo libavcodec Schrödinger (Dirac) SBC Sorenson VP7 libtheora libvpx Windows Media Encoder

Lossless

See also: compression methods and compression formats

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