Any decent video codecs to encode as?

[Kaisha]

What the subject says basically.

Specifically though, is there a codec more suited towards recordings of application displays where only portions of the screen get altered (meaning it wouldn't have to save an entire frame, just the changed parts) rather than your average one which forces a steady FPS of 30ish?

I just need to get away from uncompressed AVI as those buggers cap off at 2gb.

[Snowknight26]

FPS does not affect compressability if the data stays the same. H.264/AVC is one of the nowadway standards that should do exactly what you need.

[Kaisha]

Just tried H.264-lossless (<3 ffdshow), it's the best I've tried so far. Got around 15mb per minute including sound, although I'd still like to lower than even more.

I'm trying to get it down to some videos I've seen where they essentially got it down to 2-3mb a minute including audio, at a high resolution.
(it all strictly being application-related with not much graphically occurring aside from whatever's being demonstrated)


Beats the 2gb monsters I had earlier at any rate; can give my harddrive a break.

[Snowknight26]

You could make it even smaller if you specify a bitrate

[Niya]

it's all a matter of trying all those options most encoders offer. screwed around with encoding a short 640x480 test vid with XviD a while back and got it down to less than 1MB/min with a still acceptable quality.
XviD's quite easy to configure, you can either use a simple slider to set quality, or go in-depth and set each single "screw" of the encoder settings individually.