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Originally Posted by Hushpower
What disappoints me is that something as simple as installing HUFF hasn't been automated. Us newbys get bashed from here to kingdom come if we don't have a multi-hundred dollar VCR, a multi-thousand dollar TBC and are not Jagabo-proficient in AVISynth, and yet we're forced to go through this nonsense trying to get THE AVI codec installed. LAGS and Magic have simple EXE installers so it can be done.
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I don't see much reason to use directshow
huffyuv over utvideo or lagarith these days really given how those are easier to install and at least as efficient (magicyuv is proprietary so that one does have a bit of a downside). utvideo is still maintained and has way better format support and recently also got arithmetic coding for better compression like what's used by ffv1 and lagarith (though all variants may not work in the ffmpeg implementation yet not).
The standalone
huffyuv hasn't been maintained for ages, most applications just use the one built into ffmpeg so there are very few use cases for it and little motivation for anyone put any effort into updating the standalone codec variant (you can even do that in avisynth via e.g ffmpegsource though it's a bit clunkier to work with than avisource). Virtualdub2 comes with it built in as well via the same route for non-capture use cases.
EDIT: Other than possibly if you are doing capture on win XP with AIW and they've dropped XP support I guess it might make sense.
