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News Release from: Texas Instruments (April 2001-March 2006) | Subject: DM64x
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 10 January 2005
Digital media processor powers MPEG-4
decoder
A new MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 decoder technology platform for IP set-top boxes leverages Texas Instruments' DM64x digital media processors.
Bringing high-performance, cutting edge digital video solutions to market quickly, Modulus Video, Sentivision and Texas Instruments have developed an MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 decoder technology platform for IP set-top boxes leveraging Texas Instruments' DM64x digital media processors "Because of their programmable nature, TI's digital media processors help propel the diffusion of new industry standards, such as H.264 and Microsoft' s VC-1", said Suman Narayan, Marketing Manager for the Streaming Media Group at TI
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 11 Sep 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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The ME1000 compresses in real-time up to full D1 resolution for 525/60 and 625/50 applications.
The compressed video stream is encapsulated in an MPEG-2 transport stream with output over IP multicast.
The ME1000 is shipping today and matches the available Modulus Video MD1000 AVC professional decoder.
"With its real-time AVC encoding capability and easy-to-deploy design, the Modulus ME1000 is well-suited for ensuring reliable, high-quality transmission to consumers", said Bob Wilson, CEO of Modulus Video.
"Combined with the sophisticated set-top box technology developed with TI and Sentivision, broadcasters have a robust, end-to-end AVC system that is ready to deploy today and provides a solid foundation for the future".
The H.264/AVC decoder is one of Sentivision's products, which also include a reference set top box hardware/software platform based on the TI DM64x processor, and a real-time RTSP/RTP streaming server for media delivery.
The incorporation of a programmable TI DM64x processor allows for unprecedented flexibility [and guarantees that STB hardware will have a easy upgrade path.
"We strongly believe that only true interoperability is a sign of maturity of a set-top box product".
"At Sentivision, we invest a lot of effort into working with our partners to ensure that our products are compatible".
"TI's programmable digital media processors allow us to perform that work very quickly, without having to modify the hardware", said Jan Rychter, CTO of Sentivision.
"Our customers can also be assured that their investment is future-proof and that if compatibility problems emerge in the future, they can be easily fixed".
Built on the proven architecture of TI's TMS320C64xT generation of DSPs, the DM64x digital media processors achieve performance levels of up to 720MHz and deliver exceptional video quality with next-generation functionality and flexibility to enable OEMs to evolve designs to keep up with ever-changing technology demands.
With the H.264 solution embedded on these processors, several improvements over existing video encoding standards are available, including ultra-high compression ratio (more than 50% against any standard for the same perceptual quality), enhanced motion compensation and entropy coding and improved deblocking filter.
The low bit rate and network abstraction layer integration permits quality video transmission over low and medium bandwidth networks, such as wireless, DSL or cable TV networks.
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