HuffYUV

New in version 2.1.1

Huffyuv 2.0 and 2.1 crashed when used with Premiere because Premiere sometimes calls ICDecompress without first calling ICDecompressBegin, in blatant violation of the spec. (At least, I think it's in violation of the spec; the spec is not wonderfully clear.) Version 2.1.1 now makes the missing call on Premiere's behalf.

If MSP6 tells you that you should "convert your clip to 24-bit," try recompressing it with Huffyuv 2.1.1. Since YUY2 uses 16 bits per pixel, Huffyuv-compressed YUY2 used to use a value of 16 in the biBitCount field. But both Premiere and MSP6 seem to think this has something to do with 16-bit RGB. As of version 2.1.1 Huffyuv puts 24 in this field to make them happy, and stores the actual value elsewhere.

This version has a new .INF file which supports uninstalling, courtesy of Ondrej Zary / Rainbow Software.

Finally, an acknowledgement which I inexcusably forgot to include in the 2.0 and 2.1 release notes. I would like to extend special thanks to Karel Suhajda, whose suggestions and test results played a large role in spurring me to write the improved compression methods in Huffyuv 2.0 (and possibly some further-improved methods yet to come).