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SheerVideo

Family of proprietary lossless video codecs developed by BitJazz Inc

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 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.

SheerVideo was available for Mac OS X, Mac OS 8, and Mac OS 9.

SheerVideo supports SD, HD, NTSC, and PAL, progressive and interlaced.

01History

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.

As of September 2022, SheerVideo is no longer under active development.

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