It was designed to provide space-effective lossless video compression.

As of 2007 MSU had the second-best compression ratio when compared to many other lossless video codecs,[1] with the better result shown by YULS codec.

It can be used from such applications as VirtualDub or Adobe Premiere.

As of 23 November 2011[update] the commercial license and the source code of this codec is unavailable.

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