MSU Lossless Video Codec

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,^[1] with the better result shown by YULS codec.

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

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^[update] 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