Developer(s) | Ben Greenwood |
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Initial release | October 4, 2004 |
Stable release | 1.3.27
/ 8 December 2011 |
Written in | C++, ASM |
Operating system | Windows 2000 and later |
Predecessor | Huffyuv |
Type | lossless video codec |
License | GNU GPLv3 |
Website |
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Lagarith is an open source lossless video codec written by Ben Greenwood. [1] It is a fork of the code of HuffYUV and offers better compression at the cost of greatly reduced speed on uniprocessor systems. [2] [3] Lagarith was designed and written with a few aims in mind:
These three things, as well as being more efficient at compression than HuffYUV, make it a codec useful for the video editing stage.