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MPEG1, 2 and 4 Codecs Come Out of the Blue
Added: (Mon Nov 17 2003)
November 18 2003
For immediate release
MPEG1, 2 and 4 Codecs Come Out of the Blue
UK electronics company Breeze Technologies introduces a combined MPEG1/2 and MPEG4 PCI video encoding card branded BLUE. Lite Blue is the first in a line of BLUE (Breeze Line of Universal Encoders) products to be released over coming months.
Designed to address a wide range of professional video and broadcast applications the product contains a set of facilities not previously present on encoding boards. These include time base correction to provide both continuous stream output and adjustment for unstable sources, text and graphics overlay (on-screen-display) and pre-filtering to enable users to reduce input noise.
The board offers program, system and transport stream encoding and decoding across all three compression formats giving users a high degree of flexibility and allowing data rates from around 150kbps to 15Mbps, at QSIF to full D1 quality resolution.
Whilst the board is delivered with plug-and-play installation, encoding and streaming management software, the company also offers integration support via DirectShow and an SDK.
“It’s my view that MPEG4 will do for professional video what MPEG2 has done for broadcasting and DVD and what MPEG1 did for CD-ROM applications” suggests Stephen Jones, director and co-founder of the company. “We believe that the quality, scalability and extended functionality of MPEG4 at 50% lower transfer and storage rates than MPEG2 makes it an ideal format for professional video applications where bandwidth is limited and lower content storage costs are important”.
For further information visit www.breezetechnologies.com.
Contact:
Stephen Jones
Tel: +44 (0) 118 979 1832
info@breezetechnologies.com
www.breezetechnologies.com
About Breeze Technologies
Breeze Technologies Limited was established in 2003 by video industry veteran Stephen Jones and video compression and streaming software specialist Kevin Crofts.
Both directors worked together on new business applications at Sony Broadcast & Professional for a number of years. Kevin Crofts subsequently became European technical manager for Optibase and Stephen Jones moved to the USA to work amongst the international content and electronics industries.
In addition to finished product Breeze Technologies offers electronics design and manufacturing services to OEMs and system integrators within the broadcast and professional video markets.
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