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Rovi Unveils Program to Drive HEVC Rollout

Posted by Hugh Bennett on 7 January 2013, 11:08 am

Rovi Corporation announced a new program to help spur the development of products that take advantage of the forthcoming High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC).

Filed under Compression and Authoring, News. Tagged 4K, CES 2013, DivX, H.265, High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), MainConcept, Rovi Corporation

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Rovi and Microsoft Ink Windows Azure Media Services Agreement

Posted by Hugh Bennett on 6 September 2012, 11:56 am

Rovi Corporation announced that it has licensed its MainConcept H.264 video codec and SDK to Microsoft for Windows Azure Media Services.

Filed under News. Tagged H.264, IBC2012, MainConcept, Microsoft, MPEG-4 AVC, Rovi Corporation, Windows Azure Media Services

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Rovi Debuts MainConcept SDK for HEVC

Posted by Hugh Bennett on 6 September 2012, 11:25 am

Rovi Corporation announced its new MainConcept codec SDK for the soon-to-be ratified H.265 High Efficiency Video Codec (HEVC).

Filed under Compression and Authoring, News. Tagged H.265, High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), IBC2012, MainConcept, Rovi Corporation

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Rovi Unveils MainConcept SDK 9.5

Posted by Hugh Bennett on 16 April 2012, 9:45 am

Rovi Corporation announced its MainConcept Software Development Kit (SDK) 9.5, the latest version of the company’s video and audio codec library.

Filed under Compression and Authoring, News, Software. Tagged AVCHD 2.0, DivX Plus Streaming, H.264, MainConcept, MPEG-4 AVC, NAB Show 2012, Rovi Corporation, SDK

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Sorenson Releases Squeeze 8 Video Encoder

Posted by Hugh Bennett on 1 November 2011, 10:00 am

Sorenson Media announced its new Sorenson Squeeze 8 and Squeeze 8 Lite video encoding and transcoding applications.

Filed under Compression and Authoring, News, Software. Tagged CUDA, Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), H.264, MainConcept, MPEG-4 AVC, Sorenson Media, Squeeze 8, Squeeze 8 Lite

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MainConcept Amps Up H.264 Encoding

Posted by Hugh Bennett on 6 January 2011, 5:00 pm

Sonic Solutions announced the availability of the MainConcept OpenCL H.264/AVC encoder SDK optimized for the ATI FirePro and AMD Radeon.

Filed under Compression and Authoring, News, Software. Tagged AMD, ATI FirePro, H.264, MainConcept, MPEG-4 AVC, OpenCL, Radeon, SDK, Sonic Solutions

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Rovi to Buy Sonic Solutions for $720 Million

Posted by Hugh Bennett on 23 December 2010, 11:21 am

Rovi Corporation and Sonic Solutions announced that the two companies have signed a definitive agreement for Rovi to acquire Sonic in a stock and cash transaction.

Filed under Financial, News. Tagged Blu-ray Disc (BD), DivX, DVD, MainConcept, Rovi Corporation, Roxio, RoxioNow, Sonic Solutions

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Sonic Solutions Absorbs MainConcept

Posted by Hugh Bennett on 18 October 2010, 8:00 am

Sonic Solutions announced the successful integration of MainConcept into Sonic’s new Professional Technology Division.

Filed under Financial, News, Software. Tagged Blu-ray Disc (BD), DVD, MainConcept, SDK, Sonic Solutions

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NVIDIA CUDA Accelerates Video Production

Posted by Hugh Bennett on 10 September 2010, 8:43 am

NVIDIA announced that a growing range of software for broadcast and film production is harnessing its NVIDIA CUDA parallel computing architecture, which enables significant increases in computing performance by tapping into NVIDIA Quadro and Tesla graphics processing units (GPUs).

Filed under Compression and Authoring, News. Tagged 3D, Adobe, Ambrado, Blackmagic Design, BroadMotion, Cinnafilm, CUDA, Elemental Technologies, GPU, Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), Iridas, MainConcept, Microsoft, NVIDIA Corporation, Quadro Digital Video Pipeline, TDVision Systems

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MainConcept Speeds MPEG-4 AVC Transcoding with CUDA

Posted by Hugh Bennett on 10 September 2010, 6:00 am

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.

Filed under Compression and Authoring, News, Software. Tagged Adobe Premiere Pro CS5, CUDA, DivX, H.264, IBC, MainConcept, MPEG-4 AVC, NVIDIA Corporation, Reference

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MainConcept Demos Wares at IBC 2010

Posted by Hugh Bennett on 9 September 2010, 7:00 am

MainConcept GmbH announced that it is inviting customers and interested parties to visit its booth at the 2010 IBC show in Amsterdam and see the latest MainConcept audio and video encoding/decoding solutions, including a new Blu-ray 3D transcoding application, a suite of format compatibility plug-ins for Adobe Premiere Pro and Apple’s Final Cut Pro NLEs [...]

Filed under News. Tagged 3D, Adobe Premiere Pro CS5, Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray Disc (BD), Final Cut Pro, MainConcept, Reference, SDK

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MainConcept Launches Reference 2.1 Transcoder

Posted by Hugh Bennett on 7 September 2010, 10:05 am

MainConcept GmbH announced that it has released version 2.1 of its Reference professional video transcoding application for Windows and Macintosh platforms.

Filed under Compression and Authoring, News. Tagged Blu-ray Disc (BD), DivX, DVCPRO HD, DVD, H.264, HTML5, iPad, JPEG2000, Mac OS X, MainConcept, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 AVC, Reference, SDK, VC-1, Windows

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MainConcept Unveils Transcoder for Blu-ray 3D

Posted by Hugh Bennett on 7 September 2010, 6:00 am

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.

Filed under Compression and Authoring, News, Software. Tagged 3D, Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray Disc (BD), H.264, MainConcept, MPEG-4 AVC, MPEG-4 MVC, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP

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MainConcept Showcases New Line-Up at NAB

Posted by Hugh Bennett on 12 April 2010, 1:52 pm

MainConcept GmbH announced a preview of its new Spring 2010 products that will be showcased at the annual National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) 2010 show in Las Vegas, Nevada, April 12th–15th. According to the statement, highlights include MainConcept’s new 3D Blu-ray Disc SDK, Reference 2.0 professional transcoding application, MPEG Pro HD 5, and Movie Export [...]

Filed under Compression and Authoring, News. Tagged 3D, Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray Disc (BD), MainConcept, NAB Show

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Nine MPEGIF Members Exhibiting at NAB 2010

Posted by Hugh Bennett on 6 April 2010, 11:45 am

The MPEG Industry Forum (MPEGIF) announced that nine of its member companies (Amino, Cisco, dicas, Fraunhofer, Harmonic, Motorola, MainConcept, Nagravision and VBrick) will exhibit at NAB 2010, taking place in Las Vegas, NV between 12 April and 15 April 2010.

Filed under News, Trade Shows and Conferences. Tagged 3D, Amino, BluFocus, Cisco, dicas, Digital Tech Consulting, Fraunhofer, Harmonic, MainConcept, Motorola, MPEG Industry Forum (MPEGIF), NAB Show, Nagravision, SENSIO Technologies, TataSky, TDVision, VBrick

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