Is SheerVideo faster than Microcosm?
Yes, SheerVideo (110 MiB/s on a 1-processor 1 GHz Mac G4) encodes 70 times faster than Digital Anarchy’s Microcosm codec (1.5 MiB/s), and decodes 15 times faster than Microcosm (100 versus 6.3 MiB/s). Despite this huge speed advantage, SheerVideo is only 3% less powerful (2.20) than Microcosm (2.27) for real-world footage. And unlike Microcosm, SheerVideo supports native video formats as well as RGB[A]. However, Microcosm already supports 16-bit channels, and for poster-quality content, Microcosm tends to have much higher compression power.
