AACHEN, Germany and
SAN DIEGO, April 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MainConcept
GmbH, a wholly-owned subsidiary of DivX, Inc. (Nasdaq: DIVX) and
one of the world's premier providers of video and audio codecs and
software development kits (SDKs) to the consumer, broadcast and
professional markets, today revealed a "sneak-peek" of its new
Spring 2010 products that will be showcased at the annual National
Association of Broadcasters (NAB) 2010 show in Las Vegas, Nevada, April 12th–15th.
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MainConcept has long been recognized as the preferred supplier
of high-quality, performance optimized audio and video codecs to
many of the world's best known broadcast, streaming, consumer
electronics, and mobile device companies. With an unprecedented
number of audio and video formats available in the market today, it
is critical to have a codec partner capable of providing encoding
and decoding solutions that meet industry standards, are easy to
integrate, and provide the performance necessary for professional
applications.
Here's a brief summary of the MainConcept solutions that will be
available for demonstration at NAB 2010:
- Blu-ray Disc 3D/MVC SDK Technical Preview is a new
extension to the H.264/AVC standard that allows a video to be
encoded in multiple layers to create an exhilarating stereoscopic
3D experience. With 3D gaining in popularity with the recent
success of blockbuster Hollywood
movies, content creators of all sizes are seeking high-quality 3D
encoding solutions for deployment on Blu-ray Disc, and now
MainConcept can help meet this demand.
- MainConcept Codec SDK 8.6 is the latest version of the
Company's award winning multi-format codec SDK that powers many of
the industry's most popular creative software applications. Quality
enhancements, new performance optimizations and market leading
features make this development kit a must for software developers
who need to add audio and video encoding, decoding, transcoding and
streaming to their applications.
- MainConcept Reference 2.0 is a professional media
transcoding application based on MainConcept's industry leading
codec technology. The modular preset-based application allows users
to buy only the individual codecs needed. Users can benefit from
the presets to start encoding immediately or use the advanced
features to make detailed optimizations in the settings.
- MainConcept Movie Export is a preset-based export
plug-in for Mac OS X that can be used with QuickTime compatible
applications, including Final Cut Pro, QuickTime Pro and iMovie.
Installing MainConcept Reference Codecs for QuickTime allows users
to continue to work within their favorite Mac OS X applications
while adding the ability to encode using MainConcept's industry
leading codecs to the most popular formats including Blu-ray Disc,
Flash, AVC-Intra, Sony XDCAM and Apple iPod.
- MPEG Pro HD 5 Codec Plug-Ins are full-featured
encoding/decoding solutions for Adobe® Premiere® Pro CS3/CS4/CS5,
designed for popular broadcast and professional formats which
Premier Pro does not support natively. This new release comes with
enhanced playback performance and shaves up to 20 percent off CPU
utilization with supported formats. It offers seamless import of
spanned AVCHD clips, as well as full-screen playback on a secondary
monitor.
- MainConcept SVC SDK is an extension of the popular H.264
format and includes an encoder which encodes content at bitrates
and resolutions appropriate for mobile, SD, and HD devices, and a
decoder that can select the entire bit stream or only a partial bit
stream for decoding and playback based on the receiver's
capability.
- MainConcept™ CUDA H.264/AVC Encoder SDK off-loads
computing intensive encoding tasks from the CPU to the GPU using
Nvidia's CUDA architecture to speed up video encoding and reduce
the CPU processor load. It allows transcoding from MPEG-2, VC-1,
H.264/AVC elementary streams, and raw frames into the H.264/AVC
Baseline and Main Profile formats.
- MainConcept™ OpenCL H.264/AVC Encoder will leverage ATI
Stream technology from AMD and OpenCL™ standards to accelerate the
encoding capabilities within its H.264/AVC (Advanced Video Coding)
Pro Encoder codec package by taking advantage of available graphics
processors (GPUs) in PCs. MainConcept will be demonstrating this
encode acceleration for the first time on AMD's latest professional
graphics solution, the ATI FirePro™ V8800, at NAB.
"NAB 2010 is an exciting time for MainConcept as we have some
truly exceptional new products to show this year," said Muzaffer
Beygirci, Managing Director of MainConcept GmbH. "MainConcept
continues to be positioned as the premier supplier of world-class
encoding/decoding solutions for the broadcast and creative
production software market segments."
"The MainConcept name and its codecs have become synonymous with
quality, innovation, and cost-effectiveness in video and audio
encoding and decoding," said Dan
Halvorson, Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice
President, Operations, DivX, Inc. "Their award winning
next-generation codec technology is highly complementary to the
core DivX licensing business, and we look forward to revealing
their new product line at NAB."
Please stop by the MainConcept booth at the LVCC, South Hall
Upper Level, booth # SU6825, April
12-15, to learn how these and other MainConcept solutions
can meet your needs. The MainConcept booth will also feature a demo
of DivX TV™, a comprehensive embedded Internet TV platform that
provides access to a diverse line-up of online media content that
can be streamed directly to any connected device from any
manufacturer.
About MainConcept
MainConcept GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of DivX, Inc.
(NASDAQ: DIVX), is one of the world's premier providers of
high-quality audio and video codec solutions for consumer and
professional applications. Many of the world's best consumer
electronics and computer manufactures, handheld device makers, and
creative software providers rely on MainConcept embedded codec
solutions to deliver a superb audio and video experience to their
customers, in virtually all popular consumer formats.
MainConcept also provides comprehensive encoding and decoding
solutions to the broadcast and professional video industry in the
form of codecs for integration into creative software suites as
well as complete after-market plug-in solutions for adding new
video format support into popular Non-Linear Editing (NLE) software
packages. MainConcept – The Codec People.
Forward-Looking Statements
Statements in this press release that are not strictly
historical in nature constitute "forward-looking statements." Such
statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding
DivX, Inc.'s visibility within the investment community. Such
forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks,
uncertainties and other factors which may cause DivX and
MainConcept's actual results to be materially different from
historical results or from any results expressed or implied by such
forward-looking statements. These factors include, but are not
limited to: the risk that customer use of DivX or MainConcept
technologies may not grow as anticipated; the risk that anticipated
market opportunities may not materialize at expected levels, or at
all; the risk that DivX and MainConcept's activities may not result
in the growth of profitable revenue; risks and uncertainties
related to the maintenance and strength of the DivX and MainConcept
brands; risks associated with DivX and MainConcept's ability to
penetrate existing and new markets; risks regarding the effects of
competition; the risk of DivX and MainConcept's dependence on its
licensees and partners; risks related to the effect of intellectual
property rights claims; and other factors discussed in the "Risk
Factors" section of DivX's most recent report filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission. All forward-looking statements
are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement. DivX
is providing this information as of the date of this release and
does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking
statements contained in this release as a result of new
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SOURCE MainConcept GmbH