MainConcept GmbH announced a new NVIDIA CUDA-based H.264/AVC plug-in for MainConcept’s Reference 2.1 stand-alone transcoding application as well as a Codec Suite 5 plug-in for Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 that offers H.264/AVC encoding from the timeline, with full CUDA hardware acceleration.
MainConcept GmbH announced that it has released version 2.1 of its Reference professional video transcoding application for Windows and Macintosh platforms.
MainConcept GmbH announced that is is shipping a pre-release version of its Reference 3D transcoding application for Windows. According to the statement, this new 3D transcoding application will encode video into stereoscopic and multi-view 3D video streams for the Blu-ray 3D format as an extension of the H.264 encoding process.
CableLabs announced that it has published a new specification as a guide for producers, programmers and aggregators of stereoscopic 3D programming. According to the statement, this new specification, called Content Encoding Profiles 3.0 Specification (OC-SP-CEP3.0-I01-100827), details exact requirements for formatting (panelizing) the 3D content into a frame-compatible format for use by cable television systems.
Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications announced that at IBC, researchers will showcase how 3D movies can be transmitted via Internet and digital television (satellite, cable, etc.) by employing MPEG-4 Multiview Video Coding (MVC). According to the statement, it is also possible to maintain the compatibility of MVC-coded 3D movies with older televisions and set-top boxes (STB) …
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STMicroelectronics announced a new TV System-on-Chip (SoC) IC offering 3D TV support and 120Hz MEMC (motion estimation, motion compensation). According to the statement, designed for next–generation 1080p full-high-definition (FHD) integrated Digital TVs (iDTVs), ST’s new FLI7525 SoC enables a new class of mid-range, 3D TV-enabled, 120Hz Internet TVs.
MPEG LA announced that its AVC Patent Portfolio License will continue not to charge royalties for Internet Video that is free to end users (known as “Internet Broadcast AVC Video”) during the entire life of this License.
NetBlender announced that it is now shipping its DoStudio MVC 3D Encoder for Blu-ray 3D title creation. According to the statement, the DoStudio MVC Encoder license ($6,995) also includes the DoStudio AVC Encoder for 2D Blu-ray encoding. A free trial of the DoStudio Encoder is available for download from the company web site.
Henninger Media Services, Inc. announced that it is the first production/post-production company in the Mid-Atlantic region to offer Hollywood-quality Blu-ray Disc (BD) encoding services using the Cinema Craft High-Definition AVC encoder (CC-HDe).
ArcSoft, Inc. announced that its TotalMedia Theatre 3 Platinum multimedia player application now features a new 3D plug-in ($19.99), which includes support for Blu-ray 3D and Sim3D.
ViewSonic and Sigma Designs announced that ViewSonic’s new VMP74 and VMP75 Media Players are based on Sigma’s SMP8650 series media processor System-on-Chip (SoC) products. According to the statement, ViewSonic’s new media players allow consumers to surf the web, watch television programs from around the world and tap into online video sources.