VSS in the News

September 09, 2011 - VSS at IBC 2011

VSS launches vCompress Pro at IBC show in Amsterdam, September 9-13, 2011.
For more details please visit our IBC2011 page.

May 19, 2011 - VSS H.264 SDK version 4.6 has been released

• New features:
• AVC-Intra mode, High 4:2:2, 10bit, class50, 100 and 200. Panasonic AVC-Intra interoperable
• Hardware Acceleration:
  - NVIDIA CUDA GPU on any x86 platforms including ATOM
  - Intel Sandy Bridge support (in development)
• ParallelStream™ architecture (patent pending) enabling
  - Up to 8 simultaneous, GOP aligned streams from single input
  - Up to 50% more efficient Encoding and Transcoding then traditional methods
• High Error Resilience mode for AVC and SVC CODEC targeting low bandwidth, high packet loss environments
• PC SDK packaged for Windows, Linux and Mac, supporting 32bit and 64bit Native OS, Multi-treading with up to 32 cores per system

April 09, 2011 - VSS at NAB 2011

Welcome to see new VSS demos at Las Vegas Convention Center
(meeting room N6912MR) on April 9-14.
More details are available on our NAB page.

December 15, 2010 - v4.5 of VSS H.264/AVC/SDK released

Version 4.5 is a major release with significant new capabilities like:

• Introduction of MVC and Side-by-side AVC for 3D video applications
• AVC-Intra support for high quality, high data rate acquisition and archiving
• ParallelStream™ feature, up to 8, GOP aligned, multi-bit-rate stream from single input
• 64-bit OS Native support for Windows and Linux
• 4:2:2 10bit and 4:4:4 12bit sampling support

Some of our customers using this latest SDK have realized significant benefits like:

1. Won IBC2010 Internet Streaming Encoder award
2. First MVC (3D) Blu Ray Encoder for BD3D specification

VSS SDK are intended for commercial integration and are available

November 21, 2010 - VSS AVC Core on Xilinx FPGAs

VSS has joined the Xilinx Alliance Program as a supplier of AVC Encoder IP Cores, in addition to AVC-Intra Encoders and CABAC Encoder/Decoder IP Cores that are already available on the Xilinx FPGAs. See the press release.

October 03, 2010 - v4.4 of VSS H.264/AVC Engine

Version 4.4 of VSS' revolutionary H.264/AVC encoding engine featuring Scalable Video Coding (SVC) support has been released.

September 09, 2010 - v4.3 of VSS H.264/AVC Engine

VSS announces the release of version 4.3 of its H.264/AVC encoding engine based on proprietary ThruCode™ technology. The encoder supports Scalable Video Coding (SVC) and the AVC-Intra profiles.

August 21, 2010 - NetBlender Blu-ray Solution with VSS Encoding Technology

NetBlender announces end-to-end Blu-ray solution with first 100% Blu-ray compatible encoder powered by VSS technology.
See the press release.

August 3, 2010 - VSofts at IBC 2010 in Amsterdam, September 9-14

Come see our demos at Vanguard's booth M202 and our partner Xilinx's booth 10.E49 (Building 1).
More information is available on our IBC page and in the brochure.

June 5, 2009 - Latest Version of VSofts H.264/AVC Engine

VSofts announces the release of version 4.3 of its revolutionary H.264/AVC encoding engine based on proprietary ThruCode™ technology. The encoder supports Scalable Video Coding (SVC) and the AVC-Intra profiles.

April 2, 2010 - VSofts at NAB 2010 in Las Vegas

Witness the Next Generation of Video Technology at work! Please schedule a meeting with us
at the North Tower of the LV Hilton (suite number 4106). Please see our NAB page.
For more info see our brochure and press releases (MVC, Skymicro, Netblender).

November 16, 2009 - VSofts Partners with Xilinx to Provide AVC IP Cores

VSofts has joined the Xilinx Alliance Program as a supplier of AVC Encoder IP Cores, in addition to the AVC-Intra Encoders and CABAC Encoder/Decoder IP Cores that are already available on the Xilinx FPGAs. See the press release.

October 12, 2009 - Version 4.4 of VSofts H.264/AVC Engine

Version 4.4 of VSofts' revolutionary H.264/AVC encoding engine featuring Scalable Video Coding (SVC) support has been released.

August 16, 2009 - VSofts at IBC 2009 in Amsterdam

Witness the Next Generation of Video Technology at work! Please schedule a meeting.
For more info see our brochure.

April 20, 2009 - NetBlender Blu-ray Solution with VSofts Encoding Technology

NetBlender announces end-to-end Blu-ray solution with first 100% Blu-ray compatible encoder powered by VSofts technology. See the press release.

April 16, 2009 - 2009 NAB Show

VSofts presented its new Blu-ray Encoder, AVC-Intra FPGA, Transcoding Solutions for Enterprise and Prosumers, SVC Solutions and CELL Transcoding.
It's the next generation of technology in action! See the press release.

January 7, 2009 - H.264/AVC Video Encoder

VSofts announces the release of their H.264/AVC Video Encoder for Blu-ray and Internet Streaming Applications. The encoder provides industry professionals with new, versatile tools that encode video for todayʼs most promising and popular video technologies: the high-end Blu-ray video standard as well as powerful, clear video streaming over the Internet.
Download Press Release

January 7, 2009 - VSofts’ High Performance, Software H.264 Encoder

VSofts has released vCompress Converter Lite, a professional quality video compression and transcoding application designed for consumers.
Download Press Release

Jan 9-11 2009

Get the latest VSOFTS releases:

• H.264/AVC Video Encoding Solutions for Blu-Ray and Internet Streaming Applications
• vCompress Converter To The Consumer Market

Sep 12-16 2008 - IBC 2008

Get the latest in the state of the art compression technology:

• ThruCodeT - Fourth Generation Highly- Parallel Modular Architecture
• Broadcast HD Encoder for Pentium servers
• AVC / H.264 SVC (Scalable Video Codec)
• High Bitrate, Studio Quality Video (AVC-Intra Encoder IPcore)

April 14-17 2008 - NAB2008

See the next generation of VSOFTS technology and talk to us at NAB08

Sep 7-11, 2007 - IBC2007, Amsterdam

Visit IBM booth #2.120 to see real time HD H.264 Encoding Demo at Cell processor

August 2007

Cinea - A subsidiary of Dolby Laboratories - incorporates Vanguard H.264 codec technology
within Running Marks video watermarking product
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June 12, 2007

Broadcast International Licenses Vanguard Software Solutions Codec
Agreement Will Make the VSS H.264 Codec the Centerpiece of the IBM/CodecSys Jointly Developed Encoder
Press Release...

April 2007 - Google acquires videoconferencing software

Google acquires Marratech - our customer with VSofts H.264 videoconferencing engine inside.
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Las Vegas, NV - April 16-19, 2007 - NAB2007

Real-Time, HD 1080i H.264 Encoding - Broadcast Performance on Intel platforms –
come see this exciting breakthrough technology at the booth #C3336 at NAB2007 in Las Vegas

Private demonstrations at NAB2007
Vanguard will be at NAB2007 – we will be showing private demonstrations at our suite in the Platinum Hotel, 1.5 blocks from the convention center.

• Real Time HD 1080i H264 Encoding at Main Profile
• Low Power Decoding Solution for Set Top Boxes (STBs)
• Low Power Encoding Solution for Broadcast Quality or Mobile Surveillance

Call us directly (408) 829-4425 or (650) 464-2994 to make an appointment

April 1-5 2007 - San Jose - Embedded Systems Conference

Via Technologies will highlight the low power, multimedia solutions from VSofts in its booth (#2110) at the Embedded Systems Conference, April 1-5 at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose More...

Amsterdam RAI from 8 - 12 September 2006 - IBC 2006

Vanguard Software Solutions Inc. (VSofts) the leading OEM supplier of H264 and related compression
technology will be at IBC 2006.

Las Vegas, NV - April 24-27, 2006

Vanguard Software Solutions Inc. (VSofts) the leading OEM supplier of H264 and related compression technology will be at NAB 2006.

December, 2005

Next generation of VSofts H.264/AVC Codecs appears on the edge of year 2006!

Las Vegas, NV - April 18-21

Come to see our H.264/AVC encoder at NAB 2005, at our customers booths: SL3305 - Vitec Multimedia Communication, SL5425 - Darim Vision

Mountain View, CA - April 2005

Vanguard Software Solutions partners With Stretch on Flexible and Cost-Effective H.264 Video Development Platform.
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April 8, 2005

VSofts as MPEGIF member company completed logo qualification testing for its H.264/AVC Decoder to ensure interoperability with similar products and received MP4 Qualification Mark.

San Francisco, CA - March 8-10, 2005

Vanguard Software Solutions will participate in Embedded Systems Conference as a part of Stretch exhibition booth with real time single chip h264 SD encoding demo. Come and see us at the San Francisco Moscone Center, booth number 1026
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Los Altos, CA - April 15, 2004

Sanview Technology Inc and Videosoft announced today an agreement for Sanview to incorporate Videosoft's H.264 Codecs into their Video on Demand and Streaming solutions. "H.264 will help us cut our customers' video transmission costs and enable them to expand their content reach to lower-bit-rate markets," explained Kuk Chung, Chairman and Founder of Sanview Technology, adding that "Videosoft's codec technology will help us maximize video picture quality dramatically."

Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 15, 2003

Also at IBC was Vanguard Software Solutions Inc., a little-known Los Altos, Calif., startup with a majority of its R&D engineering team based in St. Petersburg, Russia. VideoSofts, as the company is known, made waves here with its H.264 Baseline Profile codec algorithm, capable of encoding standard-definition content in software on a PC with a 3-GHz Pentium 4 processor. In a demo that mixed H.264 with MPEG-4 AAC-plus-SBR audio coding, VideoSoft allowed visitors to pick a video file, pair it with audio and encode it in real-time. No company had previously demonstrated a software-only real-time encoding capability that allowed standard-definition pictures to be shown on a PC platform without an acceleration board.
The complete article is available at http://www.eet.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=18309407

Los Altos, CA, and Nuremberg, Germany, September 08, 2003

VideoSoft, the MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 performance leader, and Coding Technologies, the leading provider of audio compression for digital broadcasting, mobile, and the Internet, are jointly demonstrating the first integrated SDKs of MPEG-4 AVC and MPEG-4 aacPlus, the two most advanced standard compression schemes available today. The demonstration for IBC 2003 (September 12- 16, 2003) will be held in MPEG Industry Forum Village (booth 7.820) and features real-time encoding of Standard Definition video resolution seamlessly integrated with 5.1 multichannel surround sound. This solution offers to application and product developers the first industry standard solution worldwide to exploit the full benefits of MPEG-4/AVC and aacPlus on Windows and Linux PCs. SDKs for integrating these codecs into encoder and player applications are available now.

Paris, September 08, 2003

As the International Broadcasting Convention opens in Amsterdam this week (Sept. 11-15), the most doggedly pursued technology by many of the companies in attendance will be software- or hardware-based solutions for real-time H.264 encoding and decoding in high-resolution applications. A year ago at IBC, H.264 was still a curiosity that hinted at the industry's future, and inspired comparisons to MPEG-4 a standard that has played only a supporting role in broadcasting. New on the H.264 roster at this year's IBC is little known startup called VideoSoft (Los Altos, Calif.). Most of VideoSoft' R&D engineering team is based in St. Petersburg, Russia. VideoSoft hopes to make a splash at IBC with its code-efficient, real-time H.264 Baseline Profile codec algorithm. It is capable of encoding standard-definition content in software without degrading picture quality. It runs on a PC using a single Pentium 4 processor running at 3 GHz.

The complete article is available at http://www.eet.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=14700185

Los Altos, CA, September 08, 2003

VideoSoft joins MPEG Industry Forum and will demonstrate real time H.264 encoding performance. MPEG4-AVC/H.264 has gained significant momentum since it was recently finalized as identical standards in ITU (as H.264) and ISO (as MPEG-4 part 10). MPEG4- AVC/H.264 is being widely recognized as the future platform of video compression for applications such as new HDTV services, portable game console, mobile broadcast video services, video on solid-state camcorders, instant video messaging on cell phone.