Elecard Releases Fourth Generation Codecs and SDK

New Codebase to Surpass Digital Video Experts' Expectations

TOMSK, RUSSIA - April 8 2008 - Elecard, a leading developer of codecs and products for digital video, today announced the release of the fourth generation of its highly acclaimed video and audio compression codecs and codec SDK for Microsoft® Windows®.

Established in 1988, Elecard released the first set of codecs under its brand name. Later, the company developed the second generation known as Moonlight codecs, with IP rights retained by Moonlight Cordless Ltd. and its successors. The third generation was developed with MainConcept AG, which retained IP rights to most of the codecs.

“The three previous generations were among the best available, and are still in use by industry leaders in a variety of digital video products,“ said Andrey Posdnyakov, president of Elecard. “In-house tests prove that the fourth generation is even better, which is no wonder as it is powered by almost 20 years of experience in codec development.“

The Elecard 4G codec line includes:
H.264 AVC, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 Part 2, DV50 and DV100 video encoders
AAC, MPEG-2 and MP3 audio encoders
H.264 AVC, MPEG-4 Part 2, DV50 and DV100 video decoders
AAC audio decoder
MPEG-2 PS/TS multiplexer and demultiplexer

All of the above codecs are based on completely new engines. The Elecard product line also includes MPEG-2 video, MPEG-2 and MP3 audio decoders based on the third generation engines.
The new codebase architecture enables Elecard
to build encoders with industry leading features:
Extra high compression quality
Unbeatable encoding speed
The best quality/bitrate ratio
Robust, reliable performance
Specially designed engines for real-time processing
Optimizations for all x86 processors, especially for multi-core CPUs
Portability to other platforms including Windows CE, Linux and Mac OS
Special DSP optimizations for TI DM64xx and DaVinci, NXP PNX 89xx and 17xx series

Evaluation versions of the new codecs are available at
http://www.elecard.com/products/products-pc/codec-pack/

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Elecard Devices is a leading provider of video compression technology and high quality software products for video and audio playback, editing, analysis, multimedia content preparation and streaming. In 2006, Elecard Devices released its SIGMA iTV system, a firmware solution for system integrators as well as IPTV operators supporting AVC/H.264 and MPEG-2 SD&HD streaming. The Elecard group consists of seven IT companies. Elecard is headquartered in Tomsk, Russia, where it was founded in 1988.
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http://www.elecard.com/

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