[theora] lossless video codec / Dirac

xiphmont at xiph.org xiphmont at xiph.org
Sun Oct 5 05:10:16 PDT 2008


On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Jason Self <jason.self at gmail.com> wrote:
>> witch is the best lossless video codec that ffmpeg/ffmpeg2theora
>> supports?
>
> I'm sure that's a matter of opinion, but if you're asking on this list
> I'm sure you'll hear Theora, for the obvious reasons.

Theora isn't lossless.  Not sure it can be made lossless given the
specified inverse DCT it uses.

Monty


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