Capture

 
 

Compression Details

Example

The examples below are a 2x zoomed section of a single frame of video compressed using an MJPEG compressor. Note the first image shown is uncompressed to aid as a comparison.

Uncompressed, 24 bit original

 

MJPEG Quality = 100%

 

MJPEG Quality = 75%

 

MJPEG Quality = 50%

 

MJPEG Quality = 25%

File Sizes

The following is a table showing the file size of a 10 second video clip using the MJPEG compressor with different quality settings.

Settings File size for 10 seconds at 25 frames per second, 320 x 240, with 16 bit, stereo, 44.1kHz audio.
Full frames (uncompressed) 24 bit 60.0 Mb
MJPEG compressor, quality = 100% 21.7 Mb
MJPEG compressor, quality = 75% 7.0 Mb
MJPEG compressor, quality = 50% 5.1 Mb
MJPEG compressor, quality = 25% 3.9 Mb