Leadtek to release a new model of video encoder card powered by SpursEngine

- Adding Pegasys’ TMPGEnc 4.0 Xpress as bundled software to WinFast PxVC1100

Leadtek Japan released to ship a new package of WinFast PxVC1100, a PC video accelerator card, bundleded with video encoding software TMPGEnc 4.0 Xpress and TMPGEnc Movie Plug-in SpursEngine, a SpursEngine plug-in, by Pegasys, Inc.

EDIUS, Thomson Canopus' video editing software, supports SpursEngine

- Boosting speed in H.264 video editing and Blu-ray authoring for both pros and amateurs

Thomson Canopus announced to release the latest version of their video editing software for professionals, EDIUS 5.1, from later April. EDIUS 5.1 offers improvements in basic performances in video editing. It also features Blu-ray authoring and support for their H.264 / MPEG 2 codec accelerator board, FIRECODER Blu, offering more features and better performance.

Pegasys and CRI Middleware begin offering encoder software supporting SpursEngine

- Allowing to encode MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 format videos at high speed

Software encoders and video-editing software products supporting SpursEngine, Toshiba's streaming processor for multimedia applications, are on the rise and gradually permeating to the end users.

Leadtek Starts Offering SDK for SpursEngine Developers
- Every multicore chip vendor provides development kits before OpenCL popularization

Toshiba to make SpursEngine an open platform
- SDK to be released for free and multiple SpursEngine cards to run in parallel

SpursEngine Partners Group expanding, software supporting the chip on the rise, too?
- Pegasys and start-ups, Loilo and Morpho, also to participate in the Akihabara event

CRI Middleware releases video encoder "CRI SpursCoder," free for personal use
- Allowing to specify H.264 codec parameters on a command line basis

"SpursEngine helped achieve high-quality in Blu-ray video"
- Interview: Mr. Wataru Hisaki, Assistant Manager, Product Planning & Marketing Dept., Thomson Canopus Co., Ltd.