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Product category: Communications ICs (Wired)
News Release from: Zilica | Subject: MG1264
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 20 April 2006

Codec copes with H264 standard

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The MG1264 is a single low power chip offering full duplex encode and decode of video and audio into the new H264/AVC (advanced video codec) standard.

Mobilygen has appointed Zilica to promote its H264 video codec technology in Europe The MG1264 is a single low power chip offering full duplex encode and decode of video and audio into the new H264/AVC (advanced video codec) standard

Full D1 resolution and full frame rate is supported in both Pal and NTSC standards as well as lower resolutions and frame rates.

H264 is the latest MPEG compression standard being used in all forms of video communication and storage applications from broadcast to closed circuit TV applications (CCTV).

H264 offers very high compression of analogue video and audio into a compressed digital file which is superior to the previous MPEG2, MPEG4 and JPEG standards.

The MG1264 duplex codec for H264 is offered in a very small package measuring just 9 x 9mm and drawing less than 200mW making it suitable for applications in digital cameras, CCTV IP cameras, digital video recorders (DVR), personal video recorders (PVR), video conferencing, mobile phone and numerous other battery powered or video storage and transmission applications.

Zilica, based in the UK and Germany, will be promoting the new MG1264 codec throughout Europe offering demonstrations, samples and data at various security and broadcast trade shows.

Customers may purchase a demonstration system which allows video to be encoded and decoded at various resolutions, frame rates and with full control over all chip functions.

Samples are available now from Zilica and the chip is priced at US $25 for samples and US $15 for 1000-plus units.

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