Vanguard Software Solutions (VSS), a provider of H.264/MPEG-4 AVC CODEC technology since 2004, trial runs a new generation of encoders based on HEVC (H.265), the Draft International Standard approved by the Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC) in July 2012. The ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) and ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG) established JCT-VC to develop the HEV...
Vanguard Software Solutions (VSS), a provider of H.264/MPEG-4 AVC CODEC technology since 2004, trial runs a new generation of encoders based on HEVC (H.265), the Draft International Standard approved by the Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC) in July 2012. The ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) and ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG) established JCT-VC to develop the HEVC standard as a successor to H.264/MPEG-4 AVC. VSS has once again taken the lead by introducing the first HEVC real-time software encoder SDK for PCs.
Based on the updated HM-8.0 HEVC reference code, the VSS encoder is optimized for real-time performance on PC platforms, with built-in cloud scalability, while demonstrating improvements in quality and bit rate for video distribution and communication markets over current implementations based on H.264/MPEG-4 AVC. HEVC encodes video at lower bit rates than H.264/MPEG-4 AVC while maintaining similar quality levels.
“Competition for digital video distribution over wireless networks, the Internet, and cable and satellite broadcasters is compromising both the quality and reliability of these distribution networks. HEVC reduces the bit rates necessary to achieve high-quality, lessening the load on networks, increasing reliability which creates the opportunity to distribute additional video content and to support more customers without deploying more network resources,” said Irena Terterov, founder and CEO of VSS. “Our HEVC software encoder will be available later this year, while VSS HEVC hardware codecs for FPGA and ASIC implementations are also in development.”