[mythtv-users] NTT Electronics Develops Compact, Low-Power H.264/AVC HDTV Codec Module with PCI Express Interface

[Francesco Peeters (linux)]

Just received this in my other inbox, and thought this might be 
interesting for the group as well:


    NTT Electronics Develops Compact, Low-Power H.264/AVC HDTV Codec
    Module with PCI Express Interface

NTT Electronics Corporation, headquartered in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward 
announces a low-power, H.264/AVC HDTV real-time codec module, named 
PINEA module that incorporates PCI Express.

By combining the PINEA module with a stacked package structure including 
DDR memory, a compact H.264/AVC system for PC application can be easily 
achieved.

Recently, the use of H.264/AVC has spread to a variety of applications 
such as broadcasting, next-generation DVDs, and mobile devices. 
H.264/AVC is especially advantageous in applications limited by a narrow 
bandwidth communications environment, where the codec's high compression 
efficiency is utilized. Due to the massive processing resources required 
by the amount of calculations involved, software-based codecs on 
personal computers have yet to fully support the real time processing 
needed for full-HD video or multi-channel SD video encoding. The result 
has been great demand for hardware-based codecs that offer stable, 
real-time encoding.

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Francesco Peeters
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