[jraph]

> There was some minimal quality loss, of course, but it was completely irrelevant in the big picture

But then the solutions are not comparable anymore, are they? Would a lossless codec instead have improved speed?

[Sesse__]

No, because I had hardware H.264 encoder support. :-) (The decoding in FFmpeg on the other side was still software. But it was seemingly much cheaper to do a H.264 software decode.)

[chupasaurus]

H.264 has lossless mode.