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Sorenson Media Offers Sorenson SqueezeHD XCEL 2.0

Sorenson Media has announced the immediate availability of Sorenson SqueezeHD XCEL 2.0, an enhanced PCI-X-based and PCI-E-based accelerator platform/plug-in board based on Sorenson Media's encoding and compression software technology.

Sorenson SqueezeHD XCEL uses more than 16,000 parallel computing elements to significantly accelerate key encoding tasks, such as motion estimation and image transforms. Sorenson SqueezeHD XCEL works effectively in concert with video capture cards from multiple vendors to provide effective capture and encoding in a single solution.

The Sorenson SqueezeHD XCEL 2.0 PCI-E based 2500 card model includes the H.264 /Advanced Video Coding codec as well as MPEG2, and offers real-time MPEG2 encoding and greatly accelerated H.264/AVC encoding. In addition, the card is resolution independent, offering significant speedup to standard definition and high definition formats. The Sorenson SqueezeHD XCEL 2.0 card also incorporates all features of the Sorenson Squeeze Compression Suite PowerPack, including batch mode encoding, multiple format support, Web video output, watch folders, command line control and more.



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