Is HuffYUV 1.3.1 better than 2.1.1?

Pr0crastin8r · Post by **Pr0crastin8r** » Sun Aug 04, 2002 10:42 pm

Just curious. How can a lossless codec be improved?

Pr0crastin8r · Post by **Pr0crastin8r** » Sun Aug 04, 2002 10:43 pm

ack, i said it backwards.

jbone · Post by **jbone** » Sun Aug 04, 2002 10:45 pm

It can be improved by removing bugs and by making it faster and more stable.

Pr0crastin8r · Post by **Pr0crastin8r** » Sun Aug 04, 2002 11:44 pm

oh, ok. so there will be no difference in what the encoded video looks like, its just more compatible and such?

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Mon Aug 05, 2002 1:03 am

No, there can also be visual differences. For example, HuffYUV's author might decide to improve the output of the RGB -> YUV converter.

A version jump can mean anything -- read the software changelogs if you want to know what was changed.

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Mon Aug 05, 2002 1:06 am

I believe he made such exstensive changes to it that the files are not compatible with each other. So there was probably some deep internal changes.

Your best bet is to go with the latest. He probably has those old version up just in case someone needs to decode a file encoded with them.

~klinky

Pr0crastin8r · Post by **Pr0crastin8r** » Mon Aug 05, 2002 1:38 am

i uninstalled the old one and installed the new one... all my old clips work fine, and so do the new ones. so i think that they are still compatible...

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Mon Aug 05, 2002 2:34 am

Backward compatibility is not the same as forward compatibility. In other words, HuffYUV 1.3.1 files may open in HuffYUV 2.1.1, but that means nothing going the other way.