possibly silly greyscale question....

[TXL]

This may be a silly question, but for B&W video, would a greyscale mode (using 256 shades of grey) option not compress video better than using 16 bit color?

Has this been done? If not, why?

TIA

TXL

[khp]

Yes, Xvid supports this.

http://nic.dnsalias.com

But as I understand it, you won't gain nearly as much as you might think.

But if you are going to test this, I would like to hear about the results.