Softwares & Codecs Recommendations for Quality & Easiness

[Cristu]

If one wants the best results possible (60 fps, loseless or closest possible to it) what are the softwares and codecs recommendations, considering the quality of the compression (loseless or closest to it with better compression rate) and easiness to use the software.

Please post them here as well as guides you know teaching how to do the trick.

[Baldrick]

It would help if you told us what exactly you want to do. Like what is the source video? Why convert? Edit? Should it work on all devices? etc.

[Cristu]

In my case I want to compress an uncompressed (recorded by fraps at full 60 fps) .avi file to any popular PC extesion so I can share it on the internet (mediafire, skydrive, etc). No need for editing.

The goal is to show one game in it's real graphic quality, even if it is a short video, because youtube gives a bad impression about it, but uncompressed is too big, 7 seconds = 200 mb.

Thank you for your answer.

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[Hoser Rob]

You cannot compress uncompress video with no quality loss. Period. The question is how much quality loss you can live with.

[poisondeathray]

You cannot compress uncompress video with no quality loss. Period. The question is how much quality loss you can live with.

eg. ut video codec, lagarith, ffv1 are examples of lossless compression - no quality loss in the same color space

he would need RGB lossless if he was recording fraps RGB lossless

[hello_hello]

You cannot compress uncompress video with no quality loss. Period. The question is how much quality loss you can live with.

Seriously?? By definition, lossless compression is compression without quality loss. It won't compress as much as lossy compression, but it'll still compress.

This is fairly old but I didn't have the motivation to google for something more current. Chances are not much has changed. Lossless compression may not compress enough to achieve Cristu's goal, but that's another story.
http://compression.ru/video/codec_comparison/lossless_codecs_2007_en.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_codecs#Lossless_compression