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DiscretePhoton H.264 Encoder by DiscretePhoton

URLs: discretephoton-h264, discretephoton h264, discretephotonh264, discretephoton

Highly parallel and low latency H.264 video encoder for your products and services. DiscretePhoton H.264 encoder's macroblock level parallelism utilizes the full power of your multi-core CPUs without penalty (such as quality, bit-size, and encoding-latency). DiscretePhoton H.264 encoder is provided as a DirectX Media Object (DMO) which can be used directly or in DirectShow environments. DiscretePhoton H.264 encoder supports up to 64 simultaneous threads but the actual number of threads is determined by the number of CPU-cores (or hyper-threads) of your system.

Enjoy interactive HD with highly parallel DiscretePhoton H.264 encoder

DiscretePhoton H.264 encoder is provided as a DirectX Media Object (DMO). You may use it directly or in DirectShow environment.

DiscretePhoton H.264 encoder supports up to 64 simultaneous threads. But actual number of threads is determined by the number of CPU-cores (or hyper-threads) of your system. You can only decrease it.

DiscretePhoton H.264 encoder's multi-threading method is based on wavefront. All the worker threads are concentrated on the most recent input frame, which could result in very low encoding latency without any penalty on final encoded quality or bit-size. Also, Its CBR rate-control is tuned for near zero latency scenario. So, DiscretePhoton H.264 encoder is very well fitted for time-critical applications such as video conferencing, as well as other types of applications.

Low encoding latency also means low encoding latency variation, which could result in extremely low frame-drop rate for live encoding. DiscretePhoton H.264 encoder also adopts quite a large motion estimation range, which makes it resilient to high-definition, low frame-rate, and high-motion videos.

Performance figures can be found from MSU's latest public video codec comparison.

Encoder capability:

Supported H.264 profiles: Baseline.

Supported H.264 levels: Up to 5.1.

Supported input video scan modes: Progressive scan only.

Supported input video formats: I420, YV12, YUYV, UYUV, RGB24, RGB32

Supported rate-control methods: Constant Qp, Constant Bit-Rate (CBR).1-pass only.

Rate-distortion aware motion estimation, mode decision, scene-cut detection.

Large motion estimation range with hierarchical search.

Motion estimation resolution down to Quarter pixel (QPel).

In-loop deblock filter, wavefront based multi-threading, etc.

What's New in DiscretePhoton H.264 Encoder V1.1.05?

Some updates to the Examples

Some updates to the Reference Manual

What's New in DiscretePhoton H.264 Encoder V1.1.04?

Some fixes on Examples

Some fixes on core engine

What's New in DiscretePhoton H.264 Encoder V1.1.03?

RGB32 support added

Minor fixes to installer and examples

What's New in DiscretePhoton H.264 Encoder V1.1.01?

64-bit support

What's New in DiscretePhoton H.264 Encoder V1.1?

New video format support - DiscretePhoton H.264 Encoder can now accept YUYV, UYUV, and RGB24 as input video format (as well as previous I420 and YV12)

New Sample projects for C# in addition to the existing C++ samples

Highly parallel and low latency H.264 video encoder for your products and services.

Pricing: DiscretePhoton H.264 Video Encoder 1.1.0.5 1 Server License, DiscretePhoton H.264 Video Encoder 1.1.0.5 1 Server License - Price per license, per Server from 10 to 49, DiscretePhoton H.264 Video Encoder 1.1.0.5 1 Server License - Price per license, per Server from 50 or more

Evals & Downloads: Read the DiscretePhoton H.264 Video Encoder Reference Manual, Read the DiscretePhoton H.264 Video Encoder Reference Manual for Japanese, Read the DiscretePhoton H.264 Video Encoder Reference Manual for Korean, Read the DiscretePhoton H.264 Video Encoder Reference Manual for German, Read the DiscretePhoton H.264 Video Encoder End User License Agreement, Download the DiscretePhoton H.264 Video Encoder evaluation on to your computer - Expires after 30 days

Operating System for Deployment: Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003

Architecture of Product: 32Bit, 64Bit

Product Type: Component

Component Type: ActiveX DLL

Compatible Containers: Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003, Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0

Keywords: h 264 h.264 codec, encode, encoder, 264 encoding, h264, 264, mpeg-4, mpeg4, mpeg, avc, avchd, mpeg 4, video, video capture

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Part numbers: PC-535190-388692 535190-388692 PC-535190-388694 535190-388694 PC-535190-388696 535190-388696