Huffy vs MJPEG

[iKlEiTlH]

From my own experiences with test captures using these two codecs, I'd have to say that the MJPEG codec results in a small margin of increased quality, but the Huffy codec results in a smaller file size.
This puzzles me though, because the capture guides at VCDHelp.com say that the Huffy codec should result in higher quality at the cost of larger file sizes and greater consumption of CPU resources.
The settings used for my test captures were "best/best" for the Huffy codec, and quality of 20 for the MJPEG codec.
Basically, I left the default Huffy settings, and upped the quality setting to the max on the MJPEG codec.
Which of these two codecs do you people prefer when capturing to AVI?

[Anonymous65]

I think it's about 50/50. If you have lots of hard drive space (and CPU power) use Huff, if you want to limit your 2 hour move to 4 gigs, then use Picvideo and use the setting that gives you enough time to capture and still be under 4 gigs. I believe I can capture VCD resolution with Picvideo setting 18 and get close to 2 hours of video under 4 gig, and that is without loosing much picture quality. You can't do that with huff.

Sk

[Jeomite]

iKlEiTlH,
Just curious what are you computer specs? On my system, I noticed Huffy (on Best Compression) takes up alot more CPU Usage and Hard-disk space than PicVideo (Quality 20). I also believe Huffy (on YUY2=Predict Gradient/RGB24=Predict Left) takes slightly more hard-disk space than PicVideo (Quality 20) as well.

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