Is SheerVideo more accurate than MPEG or DivX?
Yes, but this isn’t a fair question. SheerVideo, as a perfect-fidelity codec designed for production, interchange, and archival, has an error of 0.0 b/S (bits per sample). MPEG, which is designed for video distribution over low bandwidth channels, needs far higher compression than can be attained with perfect quality. The error rate for MPEG compression depends both on the degree of compression and on the particular implementation of the MPEG codec, of which there are many.
