Cards accelerate video compression performance

Aspex Semiconductor has released two new low cost video compression cards, the Accelera 2000 (PCI-X) and Accelera 2500 (PCI Express).

Aspex Semiconductor has released two new low cost video compression cards, the Accelera 2000 (PCI-X) and Accelera 2500 (PCI Express).

Building on Aspex successful Accelera 3000 family, the Accelera 2000 cards offer the same level of performance for MPEG-2 and H.264 video compression, allowing real-time HD video compression with MPEG-2, and a 3-4x performance uplift for H.264 video compression.

Two Accelera 2000 cards can also be installed in an eight-core system to give real-time HD H.264 video compression performance.

Whereas the Accelera 3000 family supports multiple simultaneous HD video compression jobs, the Accelera 2000 family is limited to one MPEG-2 or H.264 HD compression task at a time.

The Accelera 3000 and 2000 PCI-X cards are available now, and the Accelera 2500 and 3500 PCI-Express cards can be pre-ordered for shipment in December.

The H.264 compression software is scheduled for a mid-October release and VC-1 will be available as a software upgrade option in Q1 2007.

Accelera 2000 and 2500 are priced at US $4995 (MSRP).

The Accelera 3000 (PCI-X) and the new PCI Express variant (Accelera 3500) are priced at $8995 (MSRP).

The MSRPs include one codec (either H.264 or MPEG-2).

Additional codecs can be purchased at $500 per codec at the time of purchase, or upgraded later at a price of $995.

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