VSS in the News

In its 7th consecutive presence at NAB trade shows, VSS is proudly demonstrating its latest technological achievements. Our released products can be found in our partner booths listed below. For confidential disclosed on new developments please make an appointment to visit our private meeting room.

Partner Demonstrations

3D Blu-ray Authoring: please visit 21st Century 3D, Booth # C10514C3 in 3D Pavilion of Central Hall. Presenting DoStudio 3D Encoder by our partner NetBlender.

AVC-Intra Encoder FPGA IP Core: please visit Xilinx, Booth # N3722 of Central Hall. Presenting Virtex5 and Virtex6 based real-time encoder demonstrations, supporting class50, class100 and class200 modes.

VSS Demonstrations

VSS private meeting room is located in North Hall, room # N6912MR.

PC SDK for H.264 CODEC: We are introducing version 4.6 of our AVC/SVC/MVC CODEC SDK for Windows, Mac and Linux.
More info...

ARM SDK for H.264 CODEC: We are licensing AVC SDK for real-time s/w CODEC on platforms like Apple iPhone, iPad, Android HTC EVO, Motorola Droid, Xoom, Samsung Galaxy. More info ...

We are also showing a new line of professional tools for Offline and Real-Time CODING:

ParallelStreamer™ Live:a real-time encoder and streamer for Internet server platforms like: Wowza Media Server, Microsoft IIS Server for Silverlight, Apple's QuickTime Streaming Server Darwin, and Adobe Flash Server. More info ...

ParallelStreamer™ Transcoder: a real-time transcoder and streamer for Internet server platforms like: Wowza Media Server, Microsoft IIS Server for Silverlight, Apple's QuickTime Streaming Server Darwin, and Adobe Flash Server. More info ...

vCompress PRO: a desktop transcoding application for offline coding. More info ...

Preview of new technologies to be introduced this year:

3DStreamer™:a real-time encoder of stereo channels into MVC based streaming protocol for Internet and Broadcast applications. More info ...

ParallelStreamer ENG™:an AVC and SVC real-time encoder designed for best video quality transmission over bonded wireless IP channels. More info ...

PC SDK for H.264 CODEC based on our 4th generation mutli-threaded, high parallelism CODEC algorithms, consists of Encoder and Decoder SDK libraries with the following capabilities:

• AVC, MVC and SVC; including High10, High 4:2:2 and High 4:4:4 predictive profile support
• 8bit and 10bit 4:2:2 and 12bit 4:4:4 support
• 32bit and 64bit Native OS support for Windows, Linux and Mac
• Multi-treading with up to 32 cores per system.
• SVC High Intra profile including, spatial dyadic, temporal, quality CGS & MGS and interlace/progressive scalabilities
• MVC Elementary Stream encoding fully compliant with BDA BD3D specifications
• AVC SEI messages for 3D applications
• ParallelStream™ adaptive multi-stream encoding and “smart’ transcoding. Support of up to 8 output streams per input stream in a single instance of encoder. Input stream transcoding is 50% more efficient then standard decode-then-encode process.
• AVC-Intra Encoder capable of 8bit and 10bit, 4:2:2 real-time encoding in class50, class100 and class200 modes. Fully Panasonic AVC-Intra interoperable
• High Resilience modes for Wireless ENG supported:
  
- AVC and SVC Encoder and Decoder Error Concealment and Error Resilience modes added
- SVC priorities packet mode, specially designed for networks capable to manage packets on a specific priority basis.

• Hardware assist added for use on lower power x86 systems like ATOM and to reduce CPU load any system with applicable GPU.
  - NVIDIA CUDA support including Quadro, GeForce, ION, etc
  - Intel Sandy Bridge support (in progress)

• Offline encoding modes
  - 2-pass VBR
  - Segment re-encoding

Further technical information, performance data and technical evaluations are available by request, under NDA. Please contact VSS directly.

ARM SDK for H.264 CODEC is a small foot print Encoder and Decoder SDK, optimized for ARM 9 Cortex based mobile devices. It can be compiled and further optimized for a variety of devices. Currently tested platforms include:

• Apple iPhone3, iPhone4, iPad
• Android HTC Thunderbolt, EVO, Motorola Droid and XOOM, Samsung Galaxy

Further technical information, performance data and technical evaluations are available by request, under NDA. Please contact VSS directly.

ParallelStreamer™ is a family of ready to use, software solutions recently introduced by VSS. Easy to install and setup these software products are intended for specific applications of real-time encoding for variety of professional markets. ParallelStreamer™ is compatible with the following streaming servers

• Wowza Media Server
• Microsoft IIS Server for Silverlight
• Apple QuickTime Streaming Server Darwin
• Adobe Flash Server

ParallelStreamer™ Live is a real-time capture, encode and steam product. Its purpose is to make any analog or digital video source easy to stream over the internet to any of today’s popular devices.

• Capture: most popular h/w capture boards are supported. See documentation of brands and models
• Encoding: up to High Profile, 1080p
  - AVC single stream
  - AVC ParallelStream, up to 8 GOP aligned streams for adaptive streaming

• Sending:
  - RTP, RTSP, UDP
  - Single and Multicast

• Management
  - Configuration UI for Capture, Encode and Send properties
  - Profiles and Configuration management
  - Remote load, start/stop

ParallelStreamer™ Live for Windows is available now. Time limited free version is available for download on VSS site. ParallelStreamer™ Live for Linux is not yet available. For pricing and other inquiries please contact VSS directly.

ParallelStreamer™ Transcoder is a real-time digital stream re-purposing tool. It adapts existing digital video streams or files to be streamed to today’s popular players and mobile devices. Incoming streams are transcoded using VSS patent pending “smart” transcoder with up to 50% higher efficiency in comparison to direct decode-then-transcode method.

• Input: MPEG2 TS streams with MPEG2 or H.264 content
• Encoding: up to High Profile, 1080p
  - AVC single stream
  - AVC ParallelStream, up to 8 GOP aligned streams for adaptive streaming

ParallelStreamer™ Transcoder is available for BETA testing. Please contact VSS directly to inquire about this product.

ParallelStreamer™ ENG is a real-time encoder specialized for Wireless Electronic News Gathering market. It is intended for low bandwidth network transmissions with varying bit rates and unpredictable packet loss. To maintain best video quality under such conditions this product deploys a variety of Encoding modes to eliminate artifacts, picture freezes and other similar problems. These modes are based on VSS patent pending Error Resilience, Error Concealment and SVC Packet prioritization techniques. For more information please contact VSS directly.

3DStreamer™ is a real-time MVC encoder which encapsulates and streams 3D content the same way today’s 2D content is streamed over the internet. Similarly to ParallelStreamer Live and Transcoder, 3DStreamer can utilize 3D stereoscopic capture boards and stereo source files. For more detailed information on input, encapsulation and transmission requirements please contact VSS directly.

vCompress PRO™, is a desktop application for encoding and transcoding of H.264 AVC and MVC formats. It is targeted at Blu-ray authoring and VOD library authoring. It supports:

• Encoding:
  - AVC and MVC elementary stream encoding
  - AAC audio stream encoding

• Transcoding:
  - DirectShow source: any file playable on local MS Media Player
  - QuickTime source: any file playable on local QuickTime Player
  - RAW source: uncompressed content in AVI or MOV files
  - PIC source: set of pictures in BMP, PNG, JPG, TIFF, DPX, etc.

• Output format:
  - Elementary Stream AVC and MVC files
  - MPEG-4 format in MP4, MOV and F4V files

• Features
  - AVC/MVC full BD Compliance for elementary stream
  - Single/Dual pass video encoding
  - VBR/CBR modes
  - Video Transforms: de-interlace, crop/padding, resize
  - Encoding media range (part of source data)

vCompress is currently available in Console Application mode, GUI version is available in Beta, both for Windows only. Time limited version is available for download. For more information please contact VSS directly.