Lossless Codec for Gray 8-Bit and Matroska

[David Schleef]

On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 04:32:42PM +0100, Horst Huchen wrote:
> I came to the conclusion using Motionjpeg (jpegenc) and Matroska with
> grayscale videos and setting the quality to 100.
> It's not lossless, but I hope it has enough quality for my effort.
> 
> Maybe it's possible to develop an grayscale version of the huffyuv Encoder,
> but I don't know anything about the huffyuv encoding algorithm.

Is there any specific reason you need a greyscale codec, as opposed
to encoding YUV images that merely happen to be grey?



David