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<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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.<ref name="l568">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
SheerVideo was available for Mac OS X, Mac OS 8, and Mac OS 9.<ref name="l568"/>
SheerVideo supports SD, HD, NTSC, and PAL, progressive and interlaced.<ref name="l568"/>
HistoryEdit
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.<ref name="f939">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
As of September 2022, SheerVideo is no longer under active development.