Pegasys and CRI Middleware begin offering encoder software supporting SpursEngine - Allowing to encode MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 format videos at high speed
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.
From the end of this January, Pegasys Inc. began shipping a plug-in, TMPGEnc Movie Plug-in SpursEngine, for their software encoder, TMPGEnc 4.0 Xpress. The plug-in enables hardware encoding with SpursEngine on PCs equipped with the chip. It is currently available from Pegasys' site as downloadable license only.
TMPGEnc Movie Plug-in SpursEngine allows to encode videos fast in the H.264 format, to upconvert standard-definition videos to HD equivalent ones (what Toshiba calls Super Resolution technology), and to use the GPU for filtering with NVIDIA's CUDA technology simultaneously. As software supporting SpursEngine, while Corel's DVD MovieWriter is bundled in Leadtek's SpursEngine board package and available, Pegasys' entry to this market has given an alternative to the end users.
CRI Middleware began selling a console encoder for SpursEngine, CRI SpursCoder. It is available from Vector PC Shop, also as downloadable license only. CRI had released a free version of SpursCoder already. The product version released this time supports audio encoding in the AAC format and the MP4 container format.
CRI SpursCoder allows to specify in detail the bit rate, resolution, profile and level, picture period, and so on, as command options, being a product targeted towards rather experienced or advanced users familiar with PC operations and video encoding.
Moreover, since CRI SpursCoder can work together with existing utilities and other software, some power users have used it with such free software as ffdshow, a codec utility, or AviSynth, video editing software, and so forth, and blogged about it.
The two products above run on Windows XP or Vista (32-bit) and are available for PCs equipped with SpursEngine such as Toshiba's Qosmio G50 or those with Leadtek Research's WinFast PxVC1100 or Thomson Canopus' FIRECODER Blu.
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