MJPEG

[landen]

Is this codec good for capturing...i have a studio dc10plus...so its the only codec i can use....

[Shabubu]

Well for starters if it's the only codec you can use then it must be good (it will allow you to capture afterall ) It's very good, it will give you good compression without much quality loss, and that means you won't drop too many frames cause your HD is too slow. It has native support for fields (and thus interlacing) and isn't as buggy as HUFFYUV. Set it to max quality and it approaches a lossless codec. Can be a bitch to work with though. (post processing)

[snowmoon]

Just try and keep the compression better than 10:1 or it will affect your final quality. You may not be able to see a diffrence in still pictures, but it will make a diffrence in your final encode.

Shabubu:

What types of bugs in Huffyuv? Huffyuv has never given me any grief except frame drops due to it's very high sustained bitrate. I have not heard of any complaints about it, and use it quite regularly.

[mpack]

I agree that MJPEG is considerably better than nothing, especially if all you want is reasonably high quality clips stored on a PC without taking up too much space. If your eventual goal is to mpeg encode then I wouldn't recommend it, as JPEG followed by MPEG encoded results is reduced quality.

I believe support for fields (interlacing) depends on which particular MJPG codec you install - you can't assume that its supported.

I too have had no problems with Huffyuv so far, though of course that isn't an option unless you have fast PC, fast hard disks and bags of disk space.