SheerVideo was a family of proprietary
lossless video codecs developed by BitJazz Inc. to enable capture, editing, playback, and archival of professional-quality lossless video formats in
real time
Real-time or real time describes various operations in computing or other processes that must guarantee response times within a specified time (deadline), usually a relatively short time. A real-time process is generally one that happens in defined ...
on low-power inexpensive hardware such as laptop computers and video cameras.
SheerVideo is still available as a set of
QuickTime
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codecs on
Mac and
Windows. It is also available as a set of
AVI
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People with the given name include:
* Avi (born 1937), Newbery award-winning Americ ...
codecs on Windows as of September 2022.
History
SheerVideo was initially developed by Andreas Wittenstein at BitJazz Inc. in July 2002.
As of September 2022, it is no longer under active development.
External links
SheerVideo page at BitJazz
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Video codecs
Lossless compression algorithms