PC Software CODEC

Every video standard starts with a reference encoder and decoder, with the source code available to everyone. What makes it a commercial product is optimization of performance and video quality for a specific platform. VSS has remained the top H.264 CODEC SDK supplier for PC platforms since the introduction of H.264 standard in 2004, a remarkable 7 years of leadership with 4 CODEC generations and major OEM customer deployments.

• Patented and patent-pending video compression algorithms, including for motion estimation, deblocking, scalability, noise suppression, wavelet transforms, rate control
• Best optimization of real-time coding while maintaining best video quality. Multi-threaded performance utilizing up to 32 cores per single instance of SDK.
• Highly modular ThruCode™ codebase architecture allows easy software maintenance, upgrades, and quick portability to new platforms. This flexibility has led to:
  • "smart" transcoders by simple integration with other codecs like H.263 and MPEG-2
  • integration of codec engine with external prediction modules (for example, FPGA-based inter and intra search engines)
  • high quality real-time control to precisely regulate decision quality (and therefore output video quality) depending on available CPU clocks
• Highly optimized ParallelStream™ engine enables highest performance in popular applications like AVC adaptive streaming and adaptive transcoding.