What are good codecs for Animated screen captures? Are there any good open-source solutions?

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Question

Most video codecs are optimized for movies. However, not all videos look like real-world movies, and usual codecs do not aways give good results.

So are there methods specifically designed for cartoons/animated screen captures? Are there any open-source implementation?

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Solution

i once saw a 2h cartoon movie (manga) encoded with theora, which they somehow got down to ~150MB and still extremely crisp - even in fullscreen (dion't ask me how they did, but that must have taken a load of tweaking)

OTHER TIPS

I would assume the Tech Smith Codec as used in Camtasia and Snagit) would be a good choice.

Cam Studio appears to be open source - I assume their codec is also.

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