SheerVideo Reader

A powerful faster-than-real-time perfectly lossless software video codec A decoder-only version of SheerVideo Pro, a powerful faster-than-real-time perfectly lossless software video codec for production, postproduction, and archival.

Compared to uncompressed formats, the application SheerVideo Reader will double your disk speed, double your disk size, double your transmission bandwidth, and maintain absolutely perfect fidelity, bit-for-bit identical to the original.

No other image format can make these claims. What's more, SheerVideo is the most versatile format around, with perfect-fidelity real-time support for:
RGB[A] & Y'CbCr[A]
optional alpha
8-bit & 10-bit precision per channel
full-range, video-range, unbiassed-range , & wide-range
4:4:4[:4] & 4:2:2[:4]
progressive & interlaced
over 2 dozen pixel formats
Synchromy perfect-fidelity color-conversion
film & video
SD, HD, & any D
4:3, 16:9, & any:any
Mac & PC
OS X & OS 8|9
XP, Me, 2000, '98 & '95
G5, G4 & G3
P4, P3, & AMD
single-CPU, dual-CPU, & multi-CPU
single-core & dual-core

And now, with Synchromy, SheerVideo can interconvert between all standard pixel formats with unrivalled accuracy.

Here are some key features of "SheerVideo Reader":
Real-time decoding
Perfect-fidelity decoding
Synchromy decoding
RGB[A] decoding
Y'CbCr[A] decoding
Alpha decoding
10-bit decoding
8-bit decoding
5-bit decoding
full-range decoding
video-range decoding
unbiassed-range decoding
wide-range decoding
4:4:4[:4] decoding
4:2:2[:4] decoding
Progressive decoding
SD decoding
HD decoding


Note: If you work with professional-quality digital film, video, or still imagery and need encoding features as well, then you need SheerVideo Pro and you can buy it here.

Requirements:
Quick time installed