<s>
Huffyuv	B-Algorithm
(	O
or	O
HuffYUV	B-Algorithm
)	O
is	O
a	O
lossless	B-Application
video	I-Application
codec	I-Application
created	O
by	O
Ben	O
Rudiak-Gould	O
which	O
is	O
meant	O
to	O
replace	O
uncompressed	O
YCbCr	O
as	O
a	O
video	O
capture	O
format	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
"	O
Lossless	B-Algorithm
"	O
means	O
that	O
the	O
output	O
from	O
the	O
decompressor	O
is	O
bit-for-bit	O
identical	O
with	O
the	O
original	O
input	O
to	O
the	O
compressor	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Lossless	B-Algorithm
only	O
occurs	O
when	O
the	O
compression	O
color	O
space	O
matches	O
the	O
input	O
and	O
output	O
color	O
space	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Huffyuv	B-Algorithm
's	O
algorithm	O
is	O
similar	O
to	O
that	O
of	O
lossless	B-Algorithm
JPEG	O
,	O
in	O
that	O
it	O
predicts	O
each	O
sample	O
and	O
then	O
Huffman-encodes	O
the	O
error	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
original	O
implementation	O
was	O
written	O
for	O
Windows	O
by	O
Ben	O
Rudiak-Gould	O
and	O
published	O
under	O
the	O
terms	O
of	O
the	O
GPL	B-License
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Huffyuv	B-Algorithm
1.1	O
was	O
released	O
in	O
2000	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
official	O
Huffyuv	B-Algorithm
has	O
not	O
had	O
a	O
new	O
release	O
since	O
2002	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Huffyuv	B-Algorithm
2.1.1	O
with	O
CCESP	O
patch	O
0.2.5	O
was	O
released	O
to	O
address	O
problems	O
particularly	O
for	O
compatibility	O
with	O
Cinema	O
Craft	O
Encoder	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Huffyuv	B-Algorithm
2.2	O
is	O
available	O
on	O
some	O
alternative	O
sites	O
,	O
but	O
is	O
reported	O
to	O
have	O
problems	O
on	O
some	O
computer	O
systems	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Huffyuv	B-Algorithm
MT	O
is	O
a	O
multi-threaded	O
version	O
that	O
uses	O
a	O
different	O
FourCC	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
There	O
is	O
a	O
currently	O
developed	O
fork	B-Application
of	O
the	O
code	O
named	O
Lagarith	B-Algorithm
which	O
offers	O
better	O
compression	O
at	O
the	O
cost	O
of	O
greatly	O
reduced	O
speed	O
on	O
uniprocessor	O
systems	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
FFmpeg	B-Library
project	O
also	O
contains	O
an	O
implementation	O
of	O
HuffYUV	B-Algorithm
which	O
allows	O
HuffYUV	B-Algorithm
files	O
to	O
be	O
created	O
&	O
played	O
on	O
Linux	B-Application
and	O
Mac	B-Operating_System
OS	I-Operating_System
X	I-Operating_System
.	O
Additionally	O
,	O
this	O
means	O
that	O
many	O
of	O
the	O
applications	O
which	O
use	O
FFmpeg	B-Library
as	O
a	O
base	O
can	O
also	O
play/create	O
HuffYUV	B-Algorithm
files	O
,	O
including	O
VLC	B-Application
media	I-Application
player	I-Application
,	O
MPlayer	B-Application
and	O
ffdshow	B-Language
.	O
</s>
