Encoder with RGB output

[egochnpp]

Hello.

Sony Vegas converts media to RGB32 when loading it.
I use xvid encoder because it is supported by hardware players, but it's output colorspace is YUV and I don't see any settings to change that.
So, if my source media is YV12, I have two transformations:

source(YV12) -> Sony Vegas (RGB) -> xvid output (YV12)

Is there any freeware encoder with compression and several output colorspaces?

[pandy]

x264 should be OK (RGB is supported) - workaround for YV12 only codecs is to separate RGB as 3 planes (stacked in spatial or temporal way), later they need to be reconstructed for example by Avisynth.

[egochnpp]

Thanks

[_Al_]

x264 will load RGB but it will convert that RGB into YUV 4:2:0

Adobe Premiere suppose to keep YUV space all the way, providing you restrain using certain effects ...

[poisondeathray]

x264 will load RGB but it will convert that RGB into YUV 4:2:0

x264 supports RGB, YUV444, YUV422, YUV420. (Although the RGB is stored internally as YUV, it's decoded as RGB . There is no YUV<=>RGB quality loss from the transform, but it's RGB encoding is very inefficient)

I use xvid encoder because it is supported by hardware players, but it's output colorspace is YUV

But YV12 is the only format widely supported by hardware players

[jagabo]

Most of the lossless encoders can work in RGB. HuffYUV, Lagarith, UT Video Codec, etc. File sizes will be large, of course.

[rkrause]

I agree, HuffYUV and Lagarith both allow you to force RGB decoding and encoding. If I was really concerned about preserving colourspace, that is the route I would go. Logarith will tend to give a better compression ratio.

[pandy]

If compression ratio is important perhaps FFV1 can be helpful http://www.ffmpeg.org/~michael/ffv1.html