Is SheerVideo more powerful than Zip?
Yes, for real-world imagery, SheerVideo (2.20) is more than 35% more powerful than Zip (1.62). For poster-quality imagery, however, such as title screens and 2-dimensional animations with solid color or smooth gradients, Zip tends to be much more powerful. Unlike Zip, SheerVideo is available as a QuickTime codec for convenient access in video applications. Moreover, SheerVideo encodes more than 110 times faster (110 MiB/s on a 1-CPU 1 GHz Mac G4) than Aladdin System’s fast Zip utility implementation (0.92 MiB/s). On the other hand, Zip is a general-purpose compression utility that can compress all kinds of files, whereas SheerVideo is specifically designed for uncompressed video.
