Video decoder is easily portable

Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team Aug 29, 2006

TIVR Communications has developed highly optimised SMPTE VC-1 Simple and Main Profile video decoder software for mobile and embedded platforms.

TIVR Communications has developed highly optimised SMPTE VC-1 Simple and Main Profile (Microsoft's WMV9) video decoder software for mobile and embedded platforms.

TIVR's VC-1 decoder benchmarking results show that real-time (15 frame/s) decoding of QVGA (320x240) resolution VC-1 Simple Profile streams coded at 192Kbit/s is achievable with 37MHz of ARM9 CPU load (on an average).

A TIVR source commented: "The availability of highly optimised solution for VC-1 decoder on ARM9 will pave the way for playback of WMV9 content even on nonWindows Mobile OS based devices".

"TIVR's VC-1 decoder runs on Symbian, Windows Mobile, WinCE and Embedded Linux based devices".

"The decoder is available for ARM7, ARM9, ARM11, StrongARM, Xscale and ZSP500 processor".

TIVR's VC-1 decoder has been implemented in ANSI-C, which makes it easily portable to wide variety of RISC processors like ARM, MIPS, ARC, OpenRISC and DSPs like TI, ADI, ZSP, CEVA.

The source adds: "TIVR is committed to provide world's best solutions across range of processors and operating systems".

The availability of efficient VC-1 decoder solution will enable large number of mobile phone/PDA/PMP users to experience high quality VC-1 or WMV9 content playback on their Symbian, Embedded Linux or Windows Mobile OS based devices.

In addition to VC-1 decoder, TIVR provides efficient solutions for H.264, MPEG-4, H.263 video decoders and AAC, BSAC audio decoders.