Edit AVCHD video comfortably:Leadtek Research announces SpursEngine board
Edit AVCHD video comfortably:
Leadtek Research announces SpursEngine board
Finally, individuals and SOHO (Small Office/Home Office) business owners who do video editing may be able to obtain workstations that allow them to comfortably do their jobs with HDTV such as AVCHD.
Taiwan's Leadtek Research, Inc., a SpursEngine partner company, is expected to participate in SpursEngine Developer Forum, held by Toshiba for the developers. They will be announcing a new PCI-Express card, WinFast PxVc1100, equipped with a SpursEngine SE1000 chip, supporting full-HD (1920 x 1080) video image processing. Leadtek displayed WinFast PxVc1100 also in Computex Taipei 2008, held in early June this year in Taipei, Taiwan (Figure 1).
Full-HD video encoding and/or rendering at high speed
WinFast PxVc1100's SpursEngine chip has four SPEs (Synergistic Processing Elements) that are RISC type processor cores of Cell Broadband Engine, CPU of Sony Computer Entertainment's PLAYSTATION 3 game console. It also has on-chip hardware logic for MPEG-2 and MPEG4-AVC/H.264 video codec algorithms for video compression and decompression, besides local storage for each SPU and control logic to manage multi-core processing.
This architecture allows to encode or decode MPEG-2 or H.264 video data up to 10 times faster than with software processing on ordinary PC CPUs*1.
Therefore, if you use a PC with WinFast PxVc1100 installed in a PCI-Express x1 slot and run a video editing software that supports SpursEngine, you will be able to record HDTV programs or edit high-def video such as AVCHD (Advanced Video Codec High Definition) easily and comfortably, either of which is not possible without an expensive, high-end PC with high-performance.
Looking forward to application software products supporting SpursEngine
As to video editing applications supporting SpursEngine, vendors like Corel Inc. in Canada and Cyberlink in Taiwan have already unveiled development versions of Ulead DVD MovieFactory and PowerDirector, respectively. Users are looking forward to the product versions of those software applications becoming available in the market.
Leadtek Research as well as software venders dealing with video editing, including Corel and CyberLink, are expected to join the upcoming SpursEngine Developers Forum event, with announcements and demonstrations of software and hardware products supporting SpursEngine.
*1: Related Article - HD Processing Forum: Conference Report - Spring 2008
