Lagarith is a lossless video codec intended for editing and archiving. Lagarith offers better compression than codecs like Huffyuv, Alparysoft, and CorePNG. There are some other lossless codecs that can compress better than Lagarith, such as MSU and FFV1; however Lagarith tends to be faster and stabler than these codecs. More detailed reasons can be found here. Lagarith is able to operate in several colorspaces - RGB24, RGB32, RGBA, YUY2, and YV12. For DVD video, the compression is typically only 10-30% better than Huffyuv. However, for high static scenes or highly compressible scenes, Lagarith significantly outperforms Huffyuv. A comparison for various types of video can be found here. Lagarith is able to outperform Huffyuv due to the fact that it uses a much better compression method.

Program Information Category: Codec Type: Free Version: 1.3.7 Size: 62KB Works on: Windows Product page: here