Implemented on the motherboard chipset, on a PCI-Express card for PC or ExpressCard for laptops, Q enables PCs and Laptops to deploy a full-HD user experience, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVD recording, HD content editing and rendering, HD video conferencing, etc.

Key facts:

• Q part of 1-lane PCI-Express (deskto) or ExpressCard (laptop)
• Encode from HDMI and/or component inputs to AVC/H.264, VC-1/WMV, VP6 (flash) and more...
• Support for any resolution and bitrate: generate youTube content, transcode for home-network streaming, save HD television efficiently to a hard-drive, etc.
• Transcode from live HDTV premium content using conditional access interface (Cablecard/DVB-CI etc.)
• Hardware acceleration for PC functionality: webcam videoconferencing, accelerated Blu-Ray/HD-DVD burning, etc.

A shift to a full-HD, DTV quality experience on a PC or laptops requires vendor to integrate the necessary technology on board to enable video playback from HD sources (Blu-Ray, HD-DVD, Broadcast, etc.), video processing for content creation, video conferencing and editing and content repurposing for deployment to other devices (iPods, PMPs, the internet, streaming in-home, etc.).

Q solution benefits

Q enables PCs and laptop to perform these tasks on board efficiently, off-loading them from the CPU to deliver:

• highest image quality at low-bitrates
• highest image quality at low-power for mobile devices
• faster than real-time transcoding speeds
• secure content protection, conditional access, DRM
• HD quality video processing
• flexible, software programmable audio and video codecs
• support for the widest variety of inputs
• an upgrade path to other codecs

Q can be integrated on the PC/Laptop motherboard to closely interact with CPUs and GPUs, on a PCI-Express board on a PC or a ExpressCard on a laptop.