> : On his website the author claims that using Motion JPEG would be
inadequate to
> : produce MPEG because it would introduce artifacts.  However, the
opposite is
> : true.  Conversion from Motion JPEG to MPEG is absolutely without quality
loss
> : (if done properly - of course one can mess up anything if one does it
> : incorrectly) and it also much faster *. --Thorsten
> </excerpt>
>
> I never knew that. Thanks for checking it out. A quick search for
> the term "transcode" delivered a great deal of info.
> =Bob=

Hmm, allright but I DO use the Huffyuv codec all the time, and it doesn't
have bugs! I am a quality freak. Huffyuv is lossless compression. Mjpeg
isn't.. File-size is not a problem for me, I bought extra harddisk space
just for this.. After capturing, I run the video and audio through several
filters and enhancers, and finally re-encode as Divx.. The quality I get
from this work, is much better than everything I ever downloaded from the
net.. If you're trying to make great video, don't forget that Huffyuv allows
you to *edit* the files and save them again and again.. They won't loose
quality until you switch to another codec.

- Hugo

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