SheerVideo
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SheerVideo was a family of proprietary lossless video codecs developed by BitJazz Inc. The codecs enabled devices to play, capture, edit, and archive high-quality lossless videos in real time.
As of July 2023, SheerVideo is still available[1] as a set of QuickTime codecs on Mac and Windows and as a set of AVI codecs on Windows.
SheerVideo can stream uncompressed-quality video at 1920x1080 resolution at 30 frames per second over a FireWire 800 line.[2]
SheerVideo was available for Mac OS X, Mac OS 8, and Mac OS 9.[2]
SheerVideo supports SD, HD, NTSC, and PAL, progressive and interlaced.[2]
History
[edit]SheerVideo was initially developed by Andreas Wittenstein at BitJazz Inc. in July 2002.
BitJazz released a version of SheerVideo that supported Intel-based Macs natively.[3]
As of September 2022, SheerVideo is no longer under active development.
References
[edit]- ^ "BitJazz: Products: SheerVideo". BitJazz: Products.
- ^ a b c Sellers, Dennis (2003-07-15). "SheerVideo Pro is 'nondestructive' video codec". Macworld. Retrieved 2024-12-22.
- ^ "SheerVideo Goes Universal Binary -- THE Journal". THE Journal. 2007-02-20. Retrieved 2024-12-22.