H.264/AVC

Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits

H.264/AVC

Overview

 The MPEG-4 video codecs provide highest video quality at lowest bit-rates. H.264/AVC is designed for maximum coding efficiency and enables screen-filling video of good quality at dates of less than 1Mbit/s. It is integrated in numerous standards, specifications and applications. 

  • Professional: Optimized implementations of H.264/AVC
  • Flexible: Software based H.264/AVC real-time HD encoding requires no dedicated hardware
  • Qualified support: Extensive and long-term experience in video coding
  • Ensured interoperability: Decoder qualified as premium conformance tier product of the MPEG Industry Forum

 

Applications

  • 3GPP, the multimedia standard for 3G mobile phones Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB)
  • High Definition DVD (HD-DVD, Blu-Ray), the next DVD generation
  • Internet Streaming Media Alliance (ISMA) specifications, which define profiles for streaming multimedia content over the Internet
  • Personal multimedia players such as Sony PlayStation Portable, Apple iPod Video, and many others

 

Availability

Fraunhofer IIS offers quality and speed optimized software implementations of all MPEG-4 Video encoding and decoding algorithms on various platforms. The video software portfolio includes

  • MPEG-4 AVC (Baseline, Main and High Profile)
  • Encoders and decoders available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X
  • Decoder available for embedded ARM platforms (Windows Mobile, Symbian), including Wireless MMX® optimizations for Intel XScale PXA27x
  • Object code libraries (SDKs) or source code
  • Other platforms upon request
For a quick overview, the pdf file below provides a summary of our product offering:
Availability chart audio and video products Fraunhofer IIS (PDF, 2 pages)

Preisanfrage
Patent licensing:

A licensing program for H.264/AVC patents is run by MPEG LA. Please visit www.mpegla.com for more information.

 

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