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This question is half StackOverflow and half SuperUser

I need information about simple and lossless video-only codecs that works in avconv. The purpose is to let screencap[1] produce one file for the entire sequence instead of one file per frame. The most straight-forward way is to write an MNG-VLC file instead of tons of PNG:s. However, no one seems to support that format, so I wonder if avconv does.

Requirements of the codec:

  • Easy to implement
  • Lossless
  • Decoding supported by avconv
  • Compression speed is a priority over file size
  • RGB-24 should be a supported pixel format
  • No inter-frame differencing (That makes multi-threading harder)
  • Not covered by any weird patents

If the question is to broad, it is good to get some clues where to start. I do not request a tool or library but technical information on the complexity of say ffv1.

[1] https://github.com/milasudril/screencap

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  • The half that is StackOverflow is requesting for a tool or library (etc.). – Jongware Jul 05 '14 at 11:04
  • @Jongware Or rather, the so part is technical insight in different codecs. The tool part "how do I convert from format X to fromat Y" is su. – user877329 Jul 05 '14 at 11:28

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