This Midvid codec when created was meant to be ,ainly for archival and also for editing purposes of video. It will encode both 24bit or 32bit RGB source data, and creates its output in 24bit format. The JPEG video codec also encodes every frame as a keyframe so you can scrub back and forth without it ever choking the machine.

This great for editing and scratch table VJs may also enjoy playing around with it for this feature. A fast machine will playback files in realtime, though as mentioned above live performance wasn’t the original idea.

Those of you using formats like RAW to edit and/or store video files will find this codec a much more attractive solution as it makes much smaller files while basically retaining all of the quality.

If you set the quality to 100% you get lossless compression, just like encoding a still image in jpeg format at 100%, but it will still be a factor of 8 or better than uncompressed. At 90% you’re looking at 15 to 1, while the image will still be fantastic. The codec will auto-detect and use MMX, P2, P3, or P4 instructions if it can.

Midvid JPEG Video Codec