A new compression standard, known variously as AVC (Advanced Video Coding), MPEG 4 part 10, and H.264, realizes previously unavailable compression rates that will enable new video applications in products ranging from cell phones, PDAs, “video-iPods” through DVD-Rs, security and video production all the way to high definition television broadcast. Was released at the end of 2003 year.
MSU Video Group MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Video Codec Comparison '2007 including MainConcept H.264, Intel H.264, x264 codecs and others. All the codecs are assessed by objective quality measures and speed for three usage areas: "Video Conferences", "Movies", "HDTV". The overall ranking is also computed. There is a free short version intended for companies and advanced users.
Created: 29/01/2008
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Salyens offers high-quality video codecs, including H.263, H.263+, H.264 (MPEG-4 AVC Part 10) and MPEG-4 Part 2, with a focus on standard compliant video conferencing and RTP streaming applications.
These codecs are also integrated, along with several audio codecs such as AMR NB and G.7xx, into the Smeet SDK and SmeetX.
Created: 30/01/2007
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This web site was founded as an independent non-commercial resource for industry participants to learn about the world of digital video technology. Besides some tutorial texts, it has a nice list of vendors, including links on vendors of hardware (IP cores, chips) and software video compression products.
Created: 14/05/2006
by Maxim SmirnovMore...
The h264bitstream library provides a complete set of functions to read and write video streams conforming to the ITU H264 (MPEG4-AVC) video standard.
License: GNU Library or Lesser General Public License.
Created: 21/04/2006
by Maxim SmirnovMore...
The CyberLink H.264 Player provides H.264 decoder and AAC decoder using ATI graphics cards hardware capabilities. Requires ATI x1300 or higher. There is a 30-day trial.
Created: 13/03/2006
by Maxim SmirnovMore...
Comparison of 7 H.264 codecs with DivX6. All H.264 codecs were kindly provided by the codecs developers. # Total number of graphs in this comparison is 3796. Only 82 (2%) of them are in document;
# The number of computer-days is more than 20;
# Final document has 85 pages.
Created: 20/12/2005
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Developers info: Intensive optimization enables you to experience H.264/MPEG4 AVC in your mobile terminals.
• Supports various interface. (Proprietary API, TI XDAIS, and directshow/dmo filter)
• Supports various CPU. (ARM, WMMX, MIPS, xtensa, 55x, 64x, and x86)
• Requires the extremely small memory and CPU resources.
• Shows the great stability and robustness through severe tests and many commercializations.
Created: 09/12/2005
by JK KimMore...
H.264 / AAC Codec chip
Hardware Simultaneous D1 Video Encoding / Decoding or dual Decoding
2-channel audio
185 mW power
Created: 11/11/2005
by John L. SmithMore...
Vegas 6 software combines real-time SD, DV, and HDV video editing with unrivaled audio tools to provide the ultimate all-in-one environment.
From version 6c has H.264/AVC support.
Created: 11/11/2005
by Dmitriy VatolinMore...
Software converter available in online shop. MPEG-4 SP and MPEG-4 AAC (audio) support enables the creation of video files for playback on the Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP). PowerEncoder MPEG-4 AVC prepares users for the widespread introduction of products and services based on the MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) and MPEG-4 SP formats, including: Digital TV, high-definition cable and satellite, high-definition DVDs, and video transmission via mobile phones.
Created: 11/11/2005
by Dmitriy VatolinMore...
Software encoder, no download. Developers claims speed optimization, but compare only with reference codec and H.263.
Created: 10/11/2005
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Ateme is a French company with a subsidiary in Canada. It is specialized in complex video and audio signal processing systems, both hardware and software. It offers MW9 and H.264 products for PC, Texas Instruments’ DSP, and FPGA. It has codecs for MPEG-4, MPEG-2, H.263, MP3, AAC, ADPCM, etc. It also offers emulators and development boards.
Created: 08/11/2005
by Maxim SmirnovMore...
Specifications of Thomson's H.264 codecs a software encoder and a software decoder. Description of product features and performances. Both are optimized for mobile applications, such as video on mobile phones, set-top boxes, PCs and PDAs.
Created: 28/10/2005
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Author's web page for the book by Iain Richardson, published by Wiley in Sept. 2003. The first book to cover H.264 (MPEG-4 AVC) in technical detail. Focussing on compression tools and profiles for practical multimedia applications, this book is useful for developers, researchers, engineers and students. Besides the H.264 standard, the video codec general ideas and basics are discussed. There is also an overview of practical issues related to the design of software or
hardware implementations.
Created: 26/09/2005
by Maxim SmirnovMore...
A site of Iain Richardson, author of "Video Codec Design" and "H.264 and MPEG-4 Video Compression" books. The site has a very nice set of H.264 white papers, some useful links and other resources.
Created: 18/11/2001
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From site PDF:
The STB7100 is a single-chip video decoder
supporting the H.264/AVC advanced video
decoding standard, Microsoft’s VC1 standard and
high definition MPEG2. As well as STBs, the
STB7100 can be used in DVD and automotive
applications.
Created: 18/09/2005
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HW Main profile Encoder based on CT3600 MDSP family
From site:
Cradle's MDSP family of scalable video processors allows a complete H.264 Main Profile D1 30 fps encoder to fit into a single chip. Cradle's recently announced CT3600 family of MDSP processors are already running H.264 MP encoder software (pre-production).
Created: 18/09/2005
by Dmitriy VatolinMore...
HW H.264 Decoder with Main & High Profile support (on CX24182)
From developers: Conexant's CX24180/1 is a MPEG-4 Advanced Video Codec (AVC)/H.264 compliant video
decoder solution for high-definition television (HDTV) set-top boxes and
standard-definition Internet protocol (IP) set-top boxes. The CX2418x supports
MPEG-4 AVC Main Profile up to Level 4.0 and is capable of decoding all ATSC and
HDTV resolutions and frame rates. The CX2418x provides a simple glueless interface
to Conexant system ICs.
Created: 09/09/2005
by Dmitriy VatolinMore...
From developers: The SMP8630 family provides highly-integrated solutions for products requiring high-definition MPEG-4.10 (H.264), VC-1, WMV9, MPEG-4.2 and MPEG-2 decoding.The Secure Media Processor architecture offers advanced content protection, supporting a wide variety of Digital Rights Management (DRM) and Conditional Access (CA) solutions.
Created: 09/09/2005
by Keith JackMore...
No download. MPEG related products also with H.264 support.
MPEG SDK "MP-Factory" provides a variety of MPEG handling capabilities
including encoding, decoding, editing, and indexing for various formats
such as H.264, HDV, MPEG-2, and MPEG-4, where system integrators can
easily implement MPEG applications through uniform APIs for various coding
formats.
Created: 09/09/2005
by Dmitriy VatolinMore...
ATI created software and HW-accelerated H.264 codec.
From site: ATI is pleased to demonstrate Radeon graphics cards enabling hardware acceleration for H.264 playback, providing a key piece in making Blu-ray and HD-DVD a reality in the PC environment.
Created: 05/09/2005
by Dmitriy VatolinMore...
Offers the codecs for licensing on the most popular multimedia processors, including the new DM642 from Texas Instruments.
From developers: W&W Communications also has codec on TI and Freescale DSPs in software for
resolution up to D1 besides the hardware implementation for HD. Our next DSP
software release will be D1 full frame rate on TI's DM642 and C641x @600 MHz
up to 2 Mbits/s. Just let you know...
Created: 05/09/2005
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Comparison of 6 codecs with default parameters.
Three of them were kindly provided by the codecs developers.
Created: 18/07/2005
by Dmitriy KulikovMore...
Sentivision has implemented and optimized a H.264 decoder on the Texas Instruments DM642 DSP (Digital Signal Processor). The decoder complements other Video-on-Demand offerings to form a complete solution for streaming DVD-quality video over DSL lines and other low and medium bandwidth networks.
Created: 18/07/2005
by Dmitriy KulikovMore...
The page contains prepublished versions of H.263 standard, H.264 / AVC standard, H.264 conformance specification, H.264 reference software specification. Other pages of the site--it's the homepage of the video trace research group at Arizona State University--have some papers and software.
There are also several video testing sequences. The sequences are in the common YUV 4:2:0 format (files are zipped) and in CIF (Bridge close, Bridge far, Highway, Mobile, Paris) and QCIF resolutions (Bridge close, Bridge far, Carphone, Claire, Container, Foreman, Grandma, Highway Mother and Daughter, News, Salesman, Silent).
Created: 11/07/2005
by Maxim SmirnovMore...
Popwire H264 encoder is all a part of Popwire's Compression Master and
Compression Engine encoding sollutions. Demo software available from the site (Encoding is limited to 20 seconds).
Created: 28/06/2005
by Dmitriy KulikovMore...
Hardware box encoder. Platforms contain the AVC Encoder Submodule, on site now press release only
From site:
SkyStream’s MPEG-4 AVC real-time encoder submodules operate in its Mediaplex-20 and iPlex headends. The compact size of the MPEG-4 AVC submodules—the industry’s smallest broadcast-quality MPEG-4 encoders—enable the high density of SkyStream’s headends. The Mediaplex headend supports 48 encoders in a single chassis, and the iPlex ultra-compact headend supports eight encoders in a single rack-unit.
Created: 28/06/2005
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VSS offers its H.264 Codec technology in an SDK form to developers who need to integrate video compression into applications for broadcast, surveillance, conferencing or content authoring markets.
Created: 26/06/2005
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MPEG2 and H.264 Video Encoder and Decoders other components within the Microsoft® DirectShow® technology.
See also : http://www.elecard.com/products/decoder_sdk.shtml
From site:
The Moonlight-Elecard AVC & MPEG-2 Encoder SDK is a software development kit enabling programmers to develop digital video applications using the Moonlight MPEG2 Video Encoder, Moonlight-Elecard MPEG2 Video Decoder, Moonlight H.264 Video Encoder, Moonlight H.264 Video Decoder and other Moonlight components within the Microsoft® DirectShow® technology...
The Moonlight-Elecard AVC & MPEG-2 Decoder SDK is a software kit for programmers and prosumers to develop digital video applications using the Moonlight H.264 Video Decoder and other Moonlight components utilizing Microsoft® DirectShow® technology.
Created: 26/06/2005
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The Moonlight MPEG & AVC OneClick Compressor is designed to capture media data from DV camcorders (using FireWire/IEEE-1394 adapters) and MPEG-2 files and convert it into AVC/H.264, MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 files that you can burn to a CD/DVD, post on-line or email to friends over networks. Just choose the video, select settings and click Start. Moonlight OneClick Compressor guarantees the top quality encoding while remaining an easy to use program.
Created: 20/06/2005
by Dmitriy KulikovMore...
FastVDO’s H.264 software CODEC is a compliant implementation on ITU-T/H.264 | ISO/IEC MPEG-4 Part 10, Baseline, Main, and High Profiles. We offer pure ANSI C++ versions that are fully portable on all operating systems, as well as highly optimized code for the Pentium platform. Pentium platform solutions extensively use MMX and SIMD features to provide real-time High Profile HD video playback.
Created: 20/06/2005
by Dmitriy KulikovMore...
Audio & Video encoders ane decoders. Evaluation copy on request.
From the site:
...real-time software design solution using the contemporary programmable processors (x86, DSP, MIPS, ARC) running on Windows, Linux and Mac OS. SoftStream™ SDKs are currently being implemented in standard-based real-time encoding, decoding, transrating and transcoding applications.
Created: 19/06/2005
by Dmitriy KulikovMore...
Support for AVC encoding (H.264)
Create content for the newest formats in the industry - H.264 and High Definition (HD) H.264.
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Created: 19/06/2005
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Specifications for Sonic’s HD-Series AVC encoder include:
High Profile, Level 4.1 AVC HD streams, compliant with HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc specifications
Bit rate-controlled CBR/VBR and quantization-controlled VBR encoding modes
Precise segment-based re-encoding for ultimate control of bit rate and quality
DTS™ HD and Dolby® Digital audio codec support
Support for uncompressed, 4:2:2, 10-bit AVI and QuickTime™ source video files
Advanced AVC toolkit including CABAC, motion search range, reference frames, Inter search shape, and P/B-slice prediction lists
Seamless integration and stream compatibility with Sonic Scenarist® HD and Sonic Blu-ray™ Creator production workstations
Created: 20/06/2005
by Dmitriy KulikovMore...
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Encodes MPEG-1, MPEG-2, Windows Media compliant (to the desktop), MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 and VC1 Technology...
Created: 19/06/2005
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Chips. Declarations only now. License H.264 from LSI Logic.
From the site:
Modulus Video and its singular vision regarding MPEG-4 AVC deliver the ultimate in video quality at the lowest bit rates. Our encoding systems offer the most comprehensive MPEG-4 AVC SD and HDTV video processing found anywhere in the industry.
Created: 19/06/2005
by Dmitriy KulikovMore...
Supports MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding (AVC/H.264) Main and Baseline Profiles, and MPEG-4, Part 2, Simple Profile (SP) and Advanced Simple Profile (ASP) video encoding...
Created: 19/06/2005
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Demo available on request.
Codec for videoconferencing.
From the site:
Benefits
Substantially increased coding efficiency, providing the
same picture quality as products that are based on H.263
or MPEG-4 at nearly half the bit rate.
Flexibility in handling different delay constraints in video
applications, such as providing very little delay for real-time
communications applications (e.g. videoconferencing), while allowing
higher processing delay in applications with no delay constraints (e.g. video storage).
Error resilience and error concealment tools to maintain the video
quality against packet loss and bit errors in error prone networks.
Created: 19/06/2005
by Dmitriy KulikovMore...
Hdot264 is an experimental video codec project that is compliant with the latest and most efficient video compression standard. That standard has many aliases, including H.26L, JVT, MPEG-4 part 10, AVC and H.264.
Created: 19/06/2005
by Dmitriy KulikovMore...
Only demo, but you can buy codec online (100$). Who test it?
From codecs site:
Key features of LEAD H.264 Video Codecs:
User definable motion estimation settings controls
the balance between encoder speed and quality.
Multiple reference frames of any combination of past and future
frames, provides precise interprediction as well as improved
robustness during packet loss while streaming over the network or Internet.
Unrestricted motion search uses reference frames that may be partly
outside the frame improving network performance by predicting missing data.
Only the difference between motion vectors is saved, increasing the compression ratio.
Intraprediction may be performed either on 4x4 blocks or 16x16.
Motion vector prediction is performed before the frame is prepared for
compression (pre-DCT) improving prediction and compression performance.
Computation is more efficient because LEAD implements the traditional
Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) as an integer transform.
The LEAD H.264 encoder makes use of the SAD HADMARD calculation to increase the compression ratio.
A context-sensitive deblocking filter smoothes out internal edges, significantly improving the visual quality of the video. The filter strength depends upon the prediction modes and relationship between the neighboring blocks.
Employs Context-Adaptive Variable Length Coding (CAVLC) to encode transform coefficients.
The Context-Adaptive Binary Arithmetic Coding (CABAC) method continually updates frequency statistics of the incoming data and adaptively adjusts the algorithm, improving compression performance.
The LEAD H.264 encoder provides the user with control of the number and types of frames encoded into the video stream.
Created: 19/06/2005
by Dmitriy KulikovMore...
Integrated. Who test it? Any remarks welcome!
From codec site:
The H.264 encoder features:
Intelligent multi-pass encoding for the best possible results at the desired bit rate with the optimal number of compression passes.
Time-saving single-pass encoding for creating draft encodes,
meeting impending deadlines and live encoding with QuickTime Broadcaster.
Peak-constrained VBR options for limited data-rate scenarios
such as streaming and CD/DVD playback.
Advanced frame reordering (B-frame) support to more efficiently
represent movie data.
4x4 integer transform for reducing traditional blocking and
ringing artifacts, especially in areas of fine detail.
Improved intraframe prediction for more efficient compression
of details and gradients in high-motion video.
Increased precision in motion estimation for crisp reconstruction
of objects in motion.
Flexible block sizes in motion estimation for more efficient
encoding of complicated motion in areas of fine detail.
Adaptively tuned in-loop deblocking filter for eliminating
blocking artifacts, resulting in a smooth, clean image.
Created: 19/06/2005
by Dmitriy KulikovMore...
MainConcept is proud to announce the immediate availability of our H.264 Encoder Preview Version for Microsoft® Windows®! Although not yet optimized for speed, this free demo will enable you to sample the quality of our newest codec. H.264 AVC (Advanced Video Coding), also known as MPEG-4 Part 10, is an exciting new standard which offers many advantages and has the potential to replace existing standards.
H.264 SDK available
Created: 14/02/2004
by Mark NelsonMore...
x264 is a free library for encoding H264/AVC video streams. It is released under the terms of the GPL license. (x264 is still in early development stage)
Created: 15/05/2005
by Dmitriy VatolinMore...
Full text of MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 standard
(draft ISO/IEC 14496-10 : 2002 (E), draft ITU-T Rec. H.264 (2002 E) ).
Created: 14/05/2005
by Dmitriy VatolinMore...
This SDK decodes and encodes H.264 AVC (Advanced Video Coding) frames, making it easy to add support for this exciting new format to your applications. The MainConcept H.264 Codec will offer ultra-high quality encoding to and decoding from H.264 material at exceptional speeds in all profiles and levels supported by the standard.
Created: 14/02/2004
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