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| ViXS Unveils Its Newes Breed of Video Processors ViXS Systems has unveiled its newest breed of video processors, now featuring support for high definition (HD) broadcast content. ViXS' XCode 2121 and 2111 combine MPEG encoding, transcoding and transrating with world-compliant conditional access and content protection to support multiple digital rights management (DRM) schemes. XCode 2121 and 2111 have the ability to encode MPEG2 and MPEG4 streams and are based on ViXS' powerful XCodeHD Engine, which gives consumers high-speed transcoding and transrating capabilities for reprocessing of MPEG streams to lower bit rates, resolutions and MPEG formats. The XCodeHD Engine delivers high-speed HD-to-HD transrating, as well as HD-to-HD and HD-to-SD downscaling. XCode 2121 and 2111 are suited for handling high definition broadcast content and support a wide array of encryption and decryption technologies. For example, the HD transport stream is input and simultaneously de-multiplexed, descrambled, transcoded and re-encrypted to support any number of DRM schemes for storage or distribution. The processor's efficient XCode encoding and reprocessing technology can reduce video bit rates while maintaining the same quality as the original content. This reduced bit rate capability enables consumers to store content on any fixed or removable memory media using only half the space required by other video encoders. The XCode 2121 video processor includes added features such as low bit rate encoding and transcoding to support small portable media players such as the video-enabled Apple iPod, Sony PlayStationPortable or video-capable cell phones. Moreover, it is ideally suited for remote TV applications such as Sony's LFX product. Both the XCode 2121 and 2111 have PCI and PCI express interfaces and have the ability to self-boot for embedded application. XCode 2121/2111 product features include: - Real-time Transrating and Transcoding - 1 HD or 3 D1 MPEG1/2/4 transcodes/transrates in 2X to 12X realtime - Adjusts video stream rates to match the network's available bandwidth - Automatically switches video formats (MPEG2-MPEG4) - Highest Quality/Highest Compression MPEG encoding - Up to 2 D1 MPEG2/4 (SP, ASP) - Supports PSP, video iPod, FOMA and DivX - Digital Capture - Transport stream inputs - 1 parallel/2 serial - Content Protection - Supports multiple DRM schemes - High Quality Filtering - 3D Y/C comb filter, spatial and temporal filters to clean noisy signals. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Computing News :: home page |