VITEC Multimedia Introduces Advanced AVC / H.264 Encoder

PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 18, 2006--VITEC Multimedia, a provider of leading edge digital video products and technology since 1988, introduces VMC-5400(TM), a capture and compression board designed for developers and integrators of mission critical video-based equipment and video broadcast applications.

VMC-5400(TM) delivers high quality real time H.264/AVC/MPEG-4 Part 10 encoding. This PCI board is fully autonomous and requires very limited CPU power from the host computer. It runs under Windows 2K & XP.

VMC-5400(TM) takes advantage of VITEC's multi-DSP architecture offering unsurpassed flexibility, upgradeability and scalability needed for real time video advanced compression algorithms.

VMC-5400(TM) offers all kind of video and audio inputs:

-- Digital inputs: video (SDI) and audio (embedded SDI and separate AES/EBU),

-- Analog inputs: video (YUV, RGB, S-Video, Composite) and audio (balanced and unbalanced stereo).

VMC-5400(TM) supports video resolutions from QCIF up to FD1 (720x480x30fps or 720x576x25fps) at main profile at level 3 (MP@L3). The bitrate of the MPEG stream can be selected in the range from 64 Kbit/s to 10 Mbit/s.

VMC-5400(TM) offers advanced features including:

-- CABAC (powerful option which achieves higher compression ratio),

-- Pause/Resume,

-- Split mode (consecutive frame accurate files generation of a defined length),

-- Preview video on the host screen,

-- Audiometer overlay,

-- Capture still image while encoding,

-- Streaming option.

VMC-5400(TM) includes an easy and powerful SDK (Software Development Kit) in the Livewire(TM) framework for rapid integration.

VITEC's Technical Centers located in France and in the US provide direct and high level technical support to developers.

About VITEC Multimedia

VITEC Multimedia is a pioneer in MPEG technology. Founded in 1988, the company is privately owned, has headquarters in Paris, France and a US office near Atlanta, Georgia. For further information please visit www.vitecmm.com or email sales@vitecmm.com or phone +33.1.46.73.06.06.