Hantro to port codecs to DragonBall

Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team Nov 25, 2002

Smartphone and PDA manufacturers can soon expect to be able to exploit the full potential of high resolution streaming video.

Smartphone and PDA manufacturers can soon expect to be able to exploit the full potential of high resolution streaming video.

Motorola and Hantro are to collaborate on incorporating advanced multimedia technology into Motorola's DragonBall MX platform with the licensing of Hantro's software and hardware video codecs.

Motorola intends to use Hantro's full multimedia framework to enable applications such as multimedia messaging and multimedia streaming for the industry-leading DragonBall MX product family.

The DragonBall MX processor is a vital element of Motorola's fully integrated Innovative Convergence platform for 2.5G and 3G wireless devices and PDAs in the converged mobile communications and handheld computing markets.

"The long-term collaboration characterized by this agreement between Motorola and Hantro makes an important statement about Motorola's commitment to video over the long term and Hantro's position as the industry leader in providing multimedia solutions for mobile terminals", says Eero Kaikkonen, CEO and President of Hantro.

"The integration of Hantro's video technology into Motorola's DragonBall MX platform provides the foundation for new, cutting-edge handheld computing and wireless handsets with exciting new feature sets", said Kenny Cheung, Asia General Manager of Motorola's Wireless and Broadband Systems Group.

"By leveraging Hantro's technology and Motorola's superb display integration, battery life management and wireless technologies, we'll be able to deliver a mobile video experience to exceed users expectations".

In its product portfolio, Hantro provides its customers with MPEG-4 and H.263 standards based real-time video codecs that are scalable from lower resolutions and frame rates up to common intermediate format (CIF) resolution with 30frame/s.

The multimedia messaging and streaming applications are based on the Hantro Multimedia Framework, which is a comprehensive video system designed for fast time-to-market implementation of video applications by combining a variety of Hantro ready-made codecs and multimedia protocols.

This framework supports both hardware and software codecs, depending on the performance requirements, and supports a large range of applications from subQCIF streaming to CIF two-way video telephony.