Laurence Marchini, Editor, writes:
We see from your search that you're looking for information on the term "Transcoding", and we have a large number of manufacturers' news releases and technical articles here on Electronicstalk which will be of interest. Let me be your guide.
Start with the news release Transcoder turns PC into a multimedia gateway from Broadcom Corp, which we summarised at the time by saying "SoC enables users to transfer audio/video content in real-time across several classes of consumer devices to and from a PC". The same day, we featured the news release Professional encoder spans broadcast markets from Horizon Semiconductors: "Supports wide range of features and capabilities designed to meet the emerging requirements of the broadcast and professional encoding equipment markets".
In December 2007, we covered the news from Cypress Semiconductor concerning its EZ-USB FX2LP USB controller - take a look at USB controller drives H.264 reference designs which says: "The new Crusher and Crusher-Capture reference designs accelerate the H.264 video encoding process up to 5x faster than real time".
Take a look also at the news release from Texas Instruments (April 2006-), Dedicated DSP accelerates video transcoding, as well as Single-chip transcoder for consumer devices from Broadcom Corp, and SoC supports both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray codes from Horizon Semiconductors.
See also:
IP core suits high-definition video (November 2007)
he Full HD decoding hardware is supported by three VLIW processors; two VLIW processors that have tile architectures and one stream processor meant for entropy coding
Infrastructure platform improves voice quality (October 2007)
TI's TMS320TNETV3020 platform incorporates high-density voice codec applications that enable Ditech to enhance the quality and performance of its voice quality solutions
Media processing blade boosts performance (October 2007)
With the new MPC-IV blade, Convedia CMS-9000 Media Servers offer the industry's highest port capacity with a lower price per port for the most demanding media processing applications
Transmission system protects video IP (October 2007)
MOST150 enables direct isochronous transport of MPEG video streams without bit-stuffing or transcoding
Chip compresses HD video (August 2007)
Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe's MB86H52 transcoder chip can compress MPEG-2 video to less than half the data size while maintaining the same video quality
Codecs ease transition to high definition (July 2007)
Codec SoCs provide up to eight channels of H.264 D1 encoding with less than 1W of total power consumption
DSPs add echo cancelling option (May 2007)
Echo canceller software is available for several DSP platforms
Video processor offer professional performance (April 2007)
Single-chip high definition (HD) MPEG-2 to H.264 transcoder boasts the performance and quality required for professional video and broadcast applications
Six-core DSP manages comms infrastructure (February 2007)
Carrier infrastructure processor claims exceptional voice and video processing capabilities, setting the stage for converged multimedia services over both fixed line and mobile applications
Multiformat transcoding bridges the gap (January 2007)
TI focuses on hardware and software that will help push the growing number of processing and connectivity standards off the list of consumer concerns
IP media processing platform enhanced (December 2006)
Aculab is pleased to announce that Prosody X, its IP media processing platform, has been enhanced with new functionality
Panel-PC V with scaleable multicore processors (December 2006)
Kontron has introduced its new Panel-PC - Kontron V panel express equipped with Intel Core Duo T2500 technology on a COM express compliant, scaleable ETXexpress computer-on-modules (COMs)
Kontron stars in Intel alliance (November 2006)
At the 2006 Intel Communications Alliance Congress in Arizona, USA, Kontron was honoured as the ICA Member of the Year 2006
Transcoding - a life-or-death issue (November 2006)
According to Texas Instruments, transcoding is crucial to enabling electronics manufacturers to drive the continued evolution of the video entertainment market
Media processor handles multiple HD streams (October 2006)
Domino[X] is a novel multistream multiformat high-definition media processor architecture
Multiservice gateway embeds voice engine (October 2006)
Memotec uses the TeamSpirit Embedded voice engine to ensure the best voice performance in its multiservice gateways
Audio compression software runs on STM decoders (September 2006)
The aacPlus/DTS audio compression solution is integrated in the STi71xx MPEG-4 decoder family of chips from STMicroelectronics for MPEG-4 HDTV consumer set-top-boxes
Multichannel audio codec encodes for HDTV (September 2006)
Tandberg Television has added MPEG-4 aacPlus multichannel audio compression to its latest line of professional HDTV encoding products for satellite, terrestrial and cable broadcasting
Codec co-operation extends into China (August 2006)
Coding Technologies and DTS have signed an agreement to extend their existing co-operation to the territory of China
Video core scales to multiple duties (August 2006)
Chip architecture can be easily scaled from low-cost high-definition video decoders to high-performance real-time multichannel video encoders and transcoders
AdvancedTCA board offers heavyweight processing (June 2006)
The AT8020 AdvancedTCA processor board is designed to meet the computing-intensive needs of major telecomms equipment manufacturers
DSP chip combines four cores with big memory (May 2006)
The MSC8144 provides an optimal DSP solution for wireline infrastructure applications, such as carrier-class trunking, enterprise VoIP media gateways and video conferencing servers
DaVinci DSP powers up home media server (April 2006)
An advanced digital media adapter and home media server reference design is based on TI's DaVinci technology
Carrier launches new wave of AdvancedTCA systems (February 2006)
The AT8400 is one of the world's first commercially available AdvancedTCA carrier board that supports up to four full-height, hot-swappable AdvancedMC modules
Processing software runs all media on the same DSP (February 2006)
Surf enVoip 4.1 provides the industry's first integrated media processing solution, which runs audio, video, fax and modem media as well as the 3G-324M protocol simultaneously on the same DSP
Infrastructure platform targets IP expansion (January 2006)
A new DSP-based carrier infrastructure platform will enable service providers to transform their existing networks into multiservice IP networks with voice, video and data services
Surf and Artesyn collaborate on media processing (November 2005)
Surf Communication Solutions is working with Artesyn Communication Products to develop open architecture, triple-play (voice, video and data) media processing solutions
Multicore DSPs deliver frugal processing power (May 2005)
Freescale's 90nm MSC8122 and MSC8126 DSPs integrate four StarCore DSP cores onto a single die
InterVideo signs up for codec support (February 2005)
InterVideo has selected Coding Technologies' aacPlus v2 codec for its MPEG-4 video transceiver and editor server
High-end DSP ramps up to 720MHz (February 2005)
Bringing exceptional performance and value to a wide range of high-end DSP applications, Texas Instruments has released production-qualified samples of the TMS320C6412T DSP, now running at 720MHz
Mapletree acquisition expands product offering (December 2004)
Performance Technologies has expanded its product offering to directly address the rapidly growing voice over IP communications platforms and applications sector of the telecomms industry
DSP boosts 3G basestation performance (November 2004)
The TMS320TCI100Q is claimed to be the industry's highest-speed DSP optimised for basestation manufacturers deploying 3G networks such as TD-SCDMA for the booming China market
Multimedia gateway reduces video interference (October 2004)
The DTG200 gateway resolves the problem of video corruption between the IP network and 3G network, enabling operators to increase revenue potential by deploying new media rich services
Microsoft designs Blackfin into set-top products (January 2004)
The Blackfin processor manages the Windows Media audio/video decode processing in the new Microsoft Windows Media centre Extender set-top products