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Sorenson Releases Squeeze 8 Video Encoder

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

MainConcept Amps Up H.264 Encoding

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

Rovi to Buy Sonic Solutions for $720 Million

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.

Sonic Solutions Absorbs MainConcept

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

NVIDIA CUDA Accelerates Video Production

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).

MainConcept Speeds MPEG-4 AVC Transcoding with CUDA

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 Demos Wares at IBC 2010

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 [...]

MainConcept Launches Reference 2.1 Transcoder

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

MainConcept Unveils Transcoder for Blu-ray 3D

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.

MainConcept Showcases New Line-Up at NAB

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 [...]