Is SheerVideo faster than Zip?
Yes. At 100 MiB/s (mebibytes per second) on a single-processor 1 GHz Mac G4, SheerVideo encodes nearly 120 times as fast as Aladdin System’s fast Zip utility implementation (0.92 MiB/s). And unlike Zip, SheerVideo is available as a QuickTime codec for convenient access in video applications. Note that SheerVideo is also on average 35% more powerful (2.20) than Zip (1.80) for real-world footage. However, for poster-quality imagery, Zip is generally much more powerful. And as a general-purpose compression utility, Zip can compress any data, whereas SheerVideo specializes in uncompressed video.
