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Re: bitjazz codec qustion



on 3/30/05 9:35, MBiederman at email@hidden wrote:
> I am an aritst who is upgrading an old installation for a new
> exhibition.  Basically, I have betaSP masters that I need to play from
> a computer as random user-accessable clips.
> 
> My fist question is:  Does anyone have experience using the SheerVideo
> BitJazz codec? (http://www.bitjazz.com/sheervideo/)  It looks like it
> is really great for real-time applications in that it is a good quality
> and very CPU inexpensive in decoding.  Any comments?

    It's good.  Uncompressed quality at about half the data rate on average.

> And the second question:
> If I plan to use the SheerVideo codec for final display, what
> compression should I consider as the intermediary?  Of course is it OK
> to use something like photo-Jpeg at 100% to avoid any loss.  I'm
> looking for a decent balance of image quality vs filesize.  The total
> time of all the clips is roughly 20mins.

    Why use something other than SheerVideo for the intermediate.  If
anything, it'd make more sense to use SheerVideo as the intermediate and
another format for delivery.

> Thanks in advance for any help...



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