The move to High Definition content and the adoption of advanced video compression standards such as H264/AVC and Windows Media has dramatically increased the complexity of the video compression process. Generating High Definition streams can take many hours or days, even on the fastest workstations.
With more than 4,000 parallel processing elements on each
chip, the plug-and-play scalability of Linedancer is ideally
suited for demanding professional and prosumer high definition
and multi-channel video compression standards, such as MPEG-2,
H264/AVC, and Windows Media / VC1.
When you’re processing millions of pixels and thousands of macroblocks for each frame, the parallelism of Linedancer is used to dramatically accelerate critical parts of the video compression process such as:
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Preprocessing and image filtering
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Deinterlacing & image scaling
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Scene change & global camera motion detection
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Motion estimation
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Discrete Cosine Transforms
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Wavelet transforms
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Each Linedancer chip delivers significantly higher performance
than even the fastest DSPs, and the simple, 1-dimensional scalability
makes it far easier to develop realtime High Definition encoders
using a small number of Linedancer devices.
Our Accelera PCI cards can be used as plug-in accelerators to a standard PC platform for the acceleration of high-definition video compression.
A world-leading partnership delivering complete solutions
| Aspex is working with MainConcept, a leading provider of software video codecs, to develop reference platforms for High Definition MPEG-2 and H264/AVC video compression based around Aspex’s Accelera family of plug-in PCI cards. |
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Futureproof, software-defined compression platform supports multiple standards
Because the Linedancer platform is fully software-defined, the same platform can be used to accelerate multiple video compression standards, giving you the confidence to launch products that can be upgraded in the field as new standards emerge.
You can add value & differentiation by customizing the platform to add your own IP, such as advanced preprocessing functions, or high-performance motion estimation techniques.
And unlike fixed-function video encoders, the Accelera platform can also be used to accelerate other functions in the workflow, such as colour correction or complex video effects processing.
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