With the adoption of advanced video compression standards such as H264/AVC and Windows Media/VC1, the processing power required to compress High Definition video has increased by more than an order of magnitude.
Scalable processing power for advanced video compression
Linedancer’s scalable architecture allows multiple chips and boards to be used in a system, allowing vendors to offer low-cost accelerators for mainstream HD encoding applications, up to real-time and beyond.
The power of parallelism
Processing hundreds or thousands of items in parallel, Linedancer’s architecture is ideal for accelerating many of the processor intensive tasks of High-Definition H264 and VC1 encoding, such as:
- Colour space conversion
- Motion Estimation
- DCT/iDCT and Hadamard transforms
- H-264 intra-prediction
H264 / AVC encoding
Reference code is available from Aspex to address the processing-intensive tasks of motion estimation and intra-prediction.
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