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News Release from: Ocean Blue | Subject: MHEG-5 and DSM-CC for Donau
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 09 July 2007
TV software suite to run on Toshiba's
Donau SoC
Linux-based software will allow for fast development of reduced component count consumer electronics products.
Ocean Blue Software is set to release its advanced MHEG-5 and DSM-CC TV software suite for Toshiba's TC9040x Donau series of processors The new Linux-based software will allow for fast development of reduced component count consumer electronics products, such as set top boxes (STBs), integrated digital televisions (iDTVs), personal video recorders (PVRs), and combination hard disk/DVD recorder systems
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 12 Dec 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Ocean Blue is pleased to work with Toshiba and to broaden its support for the leading digital TV platforms and is pleased to announce support for Toshiba's Donau SoC", comments Ken Helps, Managing Director of Ocean Blue Software.
"In addition to European requirements for Freeview Playback, support for high-definition decoding with display in half horizontal resolution and HD-to-SD conversion makes the new platform suitable for applications designed for use in the USA and Japan".
Toshiba's Donau platforms combine the company's Media embedded Processor (MeP) architecture with a 64bit embedded RISC host processor to create multimedia SoCs with compute performances of up to 650MIPS (at 180MHz).
The MeP architecture effectively frees the host processor from compute intensive DVB and multimedia processing tasks and allows designers to choose cost-optimised solutions for digital video broadcast (DVB) applications.
These applications can range from single-stream decoding, standard definition televisions to dual-stream decoding, high-end MHP (Multimedia Home Platform) and MHEG-5-based equipment.
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