Codec to archive VHS captured videos with VirtualDub?

[knumag]

Hi, i used H264/x264 codec to archive the videos im doing for someone, but hes using Pinnacle Studio 16, and the videos doest work in his software. Anyone have any ideas about a good codec i can use with virtualdub to convert them? I would want to use as close to lossless as possible. Right now with lossless X264 the videos turn out big, 20gig for an hour average..

edit - converting all to matrox dv, which seems to work fine

[lordsmurf]

Hmmm... H.264 was probably not the most ideal way to archive.
Pinnacle Studio is definitely one of the worse editor out there -- lots of bugs and quirks in that thing.
Why not just use loss Huffyuv AVI?
Not the I have anything against Matrox codecs, but it's never my first choice, or even my second or third.

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[knumag]

I prefer to use dv-codec because of the compatibilty and size, and as the video8,d8,hi8,minidv all are dv, its easier. Are there any other dv-codecs that are better to use than matrox, with virtualdub?