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News Release from: Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe | Subject: MB86H52 transcoder chip
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 24 August 2007
Chip compresses HD video
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.
Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe (FME) has released a transcoder chip that can compress full HD (1920 x 1080) MPEG-2 video data to H.264 data The new chip, MB86H52, is capable of compressing MPEG-2 video to less than half the data size while maintaining the same video quality
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 16 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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This high compression makes it ideal for use in recording equipment such as hard drives., where recording time can be increased by more than 150%.
With the predicted increase in home network appliances, this product allows transmission of full HD video over narrow bandwidths.
There are also many opportunities to embed this transcoder into equipment where the video data size needs to be reduced.
The transcoder's superior properties are the result of a proprietary algorithm developed by Fujitsu Laboratories that automatically applies less compression to areas in the image where compression artefacts are most noticeable to human vision, such as human faces or slow-moving objects, and greater compression to other areas.
Thus, high image quality for the critical zones is maximised.
This technology allows the same video quality to be maintained when transcoding from MPEG-2 to H.264.
MB86H52 includes a full HD H.264 CODEC (COde/DECode) for video encoding and decoding, so that uncompressed video data can be compressed to the H.264 format, while the device can also decompress video data from compressed or transcoded H.264.
The Codec is the same as that used in the previously announced MB86H51 device.
For digital terrestrial and digital satellite broadcasts, data is compressed into MPEG-2 format providing high-resolution video.
However, if this video is then recorded to hard drive, the file size is very large and the recording time limited.
In focusing on such issues, Fujitsu developed this MB86H52 transcoder that converts MPEG-2 video to H.264, which has higher compression. Request a free brochure from Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe ...
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