Aspex Semiconductors

Aspex accelerates award-winning H.264 Encoder

MainConcept's H.264 Encoder has won this year's MSU Codec Comparison round.

Every year, the goal of this comparison is to compare the quality of new H.264 codecs using objective metrics for comparison. The tests were conducted in different fields of application, namely VideoConference, Movies and HDTV. The codecs left at the end - yes, some big names pulled out of the comparison - scored in this order:

MainConcept
X.264
VSS
DivX (MPEG-4 ASP)
Intel H.264

And how about speed? Well, thanks to Aspex's Advanced Video Encoder (AVE), you don't have to sacrifice quality for speed. By accelerating the award-winning video compression API from MainConcept, the Aspex solution provides “plug-and-play” acceleration of many standard video compression applications (such as Sorenson Squeeze, Bluefish Symmetry, Digital Rapids StreamZ and Adobe Premiere Pro) without making any changes to encoding settings, or having new user interfaces to learn.

(Image courtesy of MSU compression project - acceleration graphics by Aspex Semiconductor Ltd)

Aspex AVE supports all profiles, resolutions and bitrates supported by the MainConcept API, allowing a 4x improvement in encoding speeds* in a variety of applications. AVE already supports MPEG-2 and H.264 on the same software-programmable platform, with VC-1 coming soon, and the possibility to add new codecs in the future, such as Flash/VP6, DNxHD, J2K, etc.

You can find out more about the MSU comparison and see the results HERE.

Please visit the Aspex website to find out more about encoder products.

* encoding speed depends on host system performance and encoding parameters. This figure represents average H.264 acceleration for standard HDTV settings on supported systems.

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