Best codec to bring Huffyuv down to size

[galneon]

I've ripped a 45 minute VHS to Huffyuv with my SAA7113 capper. I'd like to bring it down to size with as little loss as possible, ideally ~2 GB. I'm not interested in burning it to a DVD that will be playable on a DVD player, I just want to free up a bit of HD space. X264 looks horrendous, and XviD has a good degree of wobble to it. I suppose H/X264 obviously wasn't meant for analog. What codec should I compress to? It's a rather ugly rip given the card I have and the fact that the VHS is 10+ years old.

[45tripp]

wobble?

you've just kicked the most efficient and one of the most reliable codecs in one go.

why don't you provide a source sample,
and have someoe else have a go at it.

gl

[jagabo]

Your source is almost certainly interlaced. You'll want to inverse telecine or deinterlace to encode with X264 or Divx/Xvid.

[galneon]

Wobble was a bad choice of words as I was really talking about the image being unstable when encoded...

I did rip full frame. Would using inverse telesync in AviSynth be a good idea?

[jagabo]

Would using inverse telesync in AviSynth be a good idea?

If you have a film source, yes. Things like live sports and news are fully interlaced and will have to be deinterlaced instead.

[ronnylov]

MPEG-2 should work and then you can keep the interlacing too.

[jagabo]

Yes, MPEG2 will work if you use a player or MPEG2 decoder that deinterlaces or IVTCs on-the-fly. They usually don't do as good a job as a smart deinterlace/IVTC but they presumably will get better in the future.

[45tripp]

can have interlaced xvid too...

i'm not into playing guessing games though with the user's actual problem.