color "fade" with huffy, and how to use other compressors wi

[ballfam]

I thought Huffy was a lossles compressor, yet when I capture with this compressor the color on on my footage seems to fade (become more wishy washy), and the brightness seems to increase so that I end up with some "glare" in realy bright scenes. Has anyone else seen this? Is huffy really lossles?

On the same subject, I have installed Adobe Premiere, and Pinacle DV, both of which give me the option of using Intel Indeo Raw R1.2. when editing. This compressor appears to give a much better result, and also claims to be lossles, yet AV_IO doesn't present this compressor to me as an option, how can I get AV_IO to use Intel Indeo Raw? I'm assuming I may have to add something to the registry, in case it's relavent, I use Win ME to capture (because I can't get my ATI all in wonder pro to work for capture under Win200) and Win2000 to edit (because it lets me use NTFS for Big AVI's).

Any help appreciated.

[cybermage26]

To get Indeo Raw working I guess you could try changing between RGB format and YUV2 or what ever.. usually works.

[kinneera]

I'm sure Huffyuv is lossless...its a black and white kind of deal, and if the author was lying, it would be found out very quickly. In reality, the problem you are describing sounds like a colorspace conversion problem. I believe all video is going to look washed out on a computer monitor since it is RGB, whereas video is YUV2 (assuming it was captured as YUV2), and the two operate on slightly different luminence levels. In this respect, it is even preferable to retain the original YUV2 colorspace, since conversions between the two are imperfect. I think Huffyuv can also capture in RGB, but it is not the default mode.

[ballfam]

Actually, the color also looks just as bad (if not worse) when I make the VCD and play it on my TV. I'm actually managing to get around the problem at the moment by adjusting my capture card to set the color reeealy high, and the brightness and contrast low, after compressing, the color looks prety good, but when look at the "live" picure, everything positively "glows" woth color (like turning the color up way too high on a TV). I guess you can't have everything.