FFV1 codec best for capturing, archiving?
 

Hello,

I followed this to understand how to capture my video8/vhs with vdub.

I'm looking for the best codec for archiving purpose.
I've tried some but I'm interested in FFV1 but the video file is created as Progressive instead of interlaced.

With Huffyuv for example, it's interlaced.

Here are the options of FFV1:

- FFV1.3 - YUV422
- 8 bit
- slices default (Slice CRC disabled)
- Coder: Range (Large context enabled)

Pixel format:
Source: YUYV
Output: YUV422
422 planar ycbcr (yv16)

I can't change anything here, all is greyed out.

Thanks for any help

Chrisbati

In my case, MediaInfo shows that it's NTSC video (for you it might be PAL), which implies that it's interlaced, although the interlaced tag isn't explicitly set, nor is it explicitly progressive. But I don't play the capture files directly, so it doesn't affect me. The 720x480 NTSC capture files have the aspect ratio set to 3:2 (square pixels) instead of 4:3 (PAL would probably say 5:4), plus the contrast is really low in order to capture the full dynamic range of the picture, and there's extra video at the beginning before the feature starts and at the end of the tape. These all get fixed during restoration.

So I archive the original capture file, but I watch the final restored file, which is much smaller because it's H.264, so it doesn't take up much space.

In mediainfo I have explicitly Interlaced for Huffyuv and Progressive for FFV1 !

FFV1 is not a cooperative codec to work with. It fights you, lots of software doesn't like it.

Huffyuv or Lagarith for lossless archives.
MPEG 4:2:2 15mbit+ for compressed archives -- lower GOP means more bitrate needed, but less compression