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DmitriyV2

16th June 2005, 21:20

We publish 3-rd h.264 codecs comparison test (http://compression.ru/video/codec_comparison/mpeg-4_avc_h264_2006_en.html).
Also we collect information (http://www.compression-links.info/MPEG-4_AVC_H264) about current available codecs and there stage. If you have ANY new information about H.264 codecs please replay this message!

LIST of MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 VIDEO CODECS
(Last updated 21 June 2007 - 68 items now!)

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SOFTWARE CODECS:
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Ateme H.264/MPEG-4 AVC Codec (Ateme)
Participant of our codecs tests (http://compression.ru/video/codec_comparison/mpeg-4_avc_h264_2006_en.html)
No download on the original site:
http://www.ateme.com/BB_encoder_pc.php
See 30 day trial of Nero Digital (with Nero Recode) available from:
http://www.nerodigital.com/eng/index.html
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Elecard Elecard Mobile Converter v 2.0 with AVC support (Elecard)
21-day free trial. Have H.264 SDK. Participant of our codecs test.
http://elecard.com/products/products-pc/consumer/video-converter/
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Mainconcept H.264 (MainConcept AG)
Trial available on download page. Participant of our codecs tests.
http://www.mainconcept.com/site/?id=4786
Use Elecard Encoder H.264 from March 2005.
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QuickTime 7 H.264 (Apple Computer, Inc.)
Integrated. Participant of our test-2006.
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/technologies/h264/
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Intel IPP H.264 codec (Intel Corporation)
Higher quality codecs are promised in v6.0. Participant of our test-2006.
http://www.intel.com/cd/software/products/asmo-na/eng/perflib/ipp/index.htm
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VSS H.264 Video Codec (Vanguard Software Solutions, Inc.)
No download now. Participant of our codecs tests.
http://www.vsofts.com/h264/
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Sorenson AVC Pro (part of Sorenson Squeeze 4) (Sorenson Media, Inc.)
No download. Converter. Participant of our codecs test.
http://www.sorensonmedia.com/pages/?pageID=2
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SONY Video Editor Vegas 6c with AVC support (Sony Corp.)
30-days evaluation.
http://www.sonymediasoftware.com/products/showproduct.asp?PID=965
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FastVDO H.264 (FastVDO LLC)
Demo has decode time limit of 5 min.
http://www.fastvdo.com/H.264.html
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LEAD H.264 Video codec (LEAD Technologies)
Only demo, but you can buy codec online (100$). Who test it? They did not answer to our testing invitations!
http://www.leadcodecs.com/Codecs/LEAD-H264.htm
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PowerEncoder MPEG-4 AVC (CyberLink Corp.)
Available in online shop. Who test it? They did not replay to invitations to test.
http://www.cyberlink.com/multi/products/main_43_ENU.html
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AMD ATI Avivo H.264 (ATI Technologies Inc. - now part of Advanced Micro Devices Inc.)
No download. Software only +HW support. VERY fast codec by our tests.
Nero 7 Ultra Edition begun to use ATI HW support.
http://ati.amd.com/technology/avivo/h264.html
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Mpegable AVC Codec (dicas digital image coding GmbH)
No download, Encoder/decoder is a part of 'mpegable DS'
http://www.mpegable.com/mpegableDSsuite
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Expert H.264 (PixelTools Corporation)
Download on request
http://www.pixeltools.com/experth264.html
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MPEG-2/HDV/H.264 software (KDDI R&D Labs. Inc.)
No download. H.264 HP support
http://avs.kddilabs.jp/en/mpeg/mpfs/41/index.html
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MiraVid Inc. H.264 decoder (MiraVid Inc.)
Decodec only, demo only available for OEM companies
http://www.miravid.com/product_avcDec.html
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bSoft ltd MPEG-X/H.26X Encoder and Decoder (bSoft ltd.)
Demo available on request.
http://www.bsoft.info/products/video.html
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Fraunhofer IIS H.264 Codec (Fraunhofer IIS)
No download. Participant of our tests.
http://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/fhg/iis/EN/bf/amm/projects/video/index.jsp
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Scientific Atlanta - UBLive-264-C64 (Scientific Atlanta (was UB Video Incorporated))
Demo available on request.
http://www.scientificatlanta.com/products/customers/UBvideo.htm
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Roxio Popcorn with AVC encoder (Sonic Solutions)
No trial. Online shop (50$).
http://www.roxio.com/enu/products/popcorn/standard/features.html
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NEX VISION H.264 (NEX VISION)
No download.
http://www.nexvision.fr/html/products.htm
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Video Labs H.264/AVC (Video Laboratories Ltd was Imagicity, UK)
No download. Speed optimization claimed.
http://www.vid-labs.com/products/products.htm
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SPIRIT H.264 Video Codec (SPIRIT)
No download. x86 & ARM9E platforms
http://www.spiritdsp.com/products/components/video_codecs/h264/
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CoreAVC H.264 Video Codec (CoreCodec, Inc.)
HP H.264. DirectX filter. 10$ & 20$ versions download available
http://www.coreavc.com/
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CINEMA CRAFT HD encoder (Omni Communications.)
Demo on request.
http://www.omnidvdmedia.com/products_cinemacrafthde.shtml
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OPEN SOURCE:
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x264 HP encoder (free, supported by VideoLAN)
OPEN SOURCE. We recommend this encoder. Developers declare "early development stage", but encode results are one of the best.
http://developers.videolan.org/x264.html
http://x264.nl/ (unofficial)
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JM 9.6 reference H.264 encodec (free, supported by Joint Video Team ISO&ITU-T)
OPEN SOURCE. Can be used only for comatibility tests and research.
http://bs.hhi.de/~suehring/tml/
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libavcodec H.264 Decoder (Project FFMPEG)
OPEN SOURCE. Permanently updated decoder.
http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/
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Minimal H.264 decoder (by Martin Fiedler)
OPEN SOURCE. Basic decoder.
http://keyj.s2000.ws/?page_id=41
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Hdot264 Pre-Alpha (Project Hdot264)
OPEN SOURCE. Non active.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/hdot264/
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t264 (Project t264)
OPEN SOURCE. Non active.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/t264
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See also Software Developments Kits for software codec usage:
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Elecard AVC&MPEG2 Encoder SDK (Elecard)
H.264 Video Encoder and Decoders within the DirectShow SDK.
http://www.elecard.com/products/encoder_sdk.shtml

MainConcept H.264 SDK (MainConcept AG)
Windows, Apple, Linux and TI DSP supported.
http://www.mainconcept.com/site/?id=4786

LEADTOOLS Multimedia Developer SDKs (LEAD Technologies, Inc)
Support for many-many formats, including H.264 http://www.leadtools.com/SDK/Multimedia/Multimedia-Products-n.htm

MPEG SDK "MP-Factory" (KDDI R&D Labs. Inc.)
SDK with H.264, HDV, MPEG-1,-2, and -4 support
http://avs.kddilabs.jp/mpeg/mpfs32/indexe.html

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HARDWARE IMPLEMENTED:
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Sony PlayStation Portable (Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.)
Product: Support H.264/MPEG-4 AVC Main Profile Level3 decoding.
http://www.us.playstation.com/PSP/System
Try also "Sony Image Converter 2 Plus" with AVC support.
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VSX 300 Videoconferencing Terminal with H.264 support (Polycom Inc)
Product: Biggest HW videoconferencing company, prepare many solutions with 264 support
http://www.polycom.com/products_services/1,1443,pw-35-6197,00.html
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Tandberg EN5930 SD/EN5990 HD Encoders (Tandberg Television)
Product: Television SD & HD encoders.
http://www.tandbergtv.com/products/products.asp?range=3
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Tandberg Telecom - video communication (Tandberg Telecom)
Product for videoconferencing, supports H.264 baseline profile.
http://www.tandberg.net/our_story/h264.jsp
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4Caster MPEG-4 / H.264 Encoder (Envivio, Inc.)
Product: Hardware box encoder
http://www.envivio.com/solutions/iptv_broadband_television.php
http://www.envivio.com/products/bshdenc_4coder_8500_software.php (software, no download)
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Tut Systems MPEG-4 AVC (Tut Systems, Inc.)
Product: Hardware transcoder box.
http://www.tutsys.com/digitalheadend/products/astriacp/mpeg4avc/
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Hardware MGW 5100 (Optibase, Inc.)
Product: Hardware box encoder
http://www.optibase.com/Content.aspx?id=38
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Harmonic DiviComR MV 100 Encoder (Harmonic Inc. )
Product: Several hardware SD and HD Broadcast AVC encoders
http://www.harmonicinc.com/view_csd_product_group.cfm?classID=1010
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E42 - H264 DVB over IP Broadcast Encoder (StreamTel Corporation)
Product: Hardware box encoder. Broadcast-Grade real time H264 DVB IP streaming encoder
http://www.streamtel.com/streamtel/products/det/1_Encoders/46_E42_-_H264_DVB_over_IP_Broadcast_Encoder.htm
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Darim MV401EXP-H264 Encoder and MV410EXP Decoder (Darim Vision Co., Ltd.)
Product: Hardware box Encoding/Streaming systems
http://www.darimmedia.com/products/mv401exp-h264.php
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Mayah I [io] 8000 series (MAYAH Communications)
Product: Hardware box. Plan AVC availability in Q3 '05.
http://www.mayah.com/products/io-8000a.htm
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Thales ARGOS MPEG-4 Encoder (Thales Broadcast & Multimedia, Inc.)
Product: Hardware box. Plan AVC from July 05.
http://www-db.thomcastcom.ext.coltfrance.com/db/thomcast/webdriver?MIval=V_Prod_Detail_b.html&F_ID=4&D_ID=1&P_ID=221
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TI TMS320DM64x DSP ( Texas Instruments Incorporated)
Chip: SD BP encoder+decoder, MP decoder
http://focus.ti.com/dsp/docs/dspsplash.tsp?contentId=1573
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ViBE MPEG-4 AVC (Thomson)
Chip: modular hardware series of encoders
http://www.thomsongrassvalley.com/products/transmission/vibe/encoder_mpeg4/
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Broadcom chips (Broadcom Corp. former Sandvideo)
Chip with H.264 HD / decoding only
http://websearch.broadcom.com/query.html?qt=AVC
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Sentivision H.264/AVC Decoders (Sentivision, Japan)
Chip/products with H.264 HD / decoding only / only for TI DSP's
http://www.sentivision.com/
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SD MPEG-2/AVC encoder (Scientific Atlanta now part of Cisco)
Product: Transmission system (for satellite TV)
http://www.saeurope.com/products/customerhome.htm
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LSI H.264 VLE4000 (LSI Logic Corp. former: VideoLocus)
Chips with 264 support
http://www.lsi.com/consumer_home/products_home/standard_product_ics/video_broadcasting_solutions/h264_encoder/index.html
Domino[X] transcoding technology:
http://www.lsi.com/insight_center/tech_trends/advanced_architectures/dominox_media/index.html
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Modulus Video SDTV, HDTV Encoder (Modulus Video, Inc.)
Chips. Declarations only now. License H.264 from LSI Logic.
http://modulusvideo.com/main.php?Page=12
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BSP 15 (System-on-chip) (Pixelworks Inc - was Equator Technologies, Inc.)
Chips. No info about Equator H.264 on site now.
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Surveillance Real Time H.264 Encoders (DSP Research, Inc.)
Several chips implementation.
http://www.dspr.com/www/products/overview_video.htm
http://www.dspr.com/www/support/download/video_download.htm
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VP3-PMC / Hardware TwinPEG Pro (Vitec Multimedia)
Chips. TMS320DM642TMDSP & etc
http://www.vitecmm.com/product.php?id=41
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WWComs H.264 Codecs (W&W Communications Inc.)
Several chips implementation (TI DM64x, C64xx, Freescale DSPs).
http://www.wwcoms.com/products/h264_codec.htm
http://www.wwcoms.com/products/codec/bc264.htm
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CX2418x H.264 Video Decoder IC (Conexant Systems, Inc.)
HW Decoder with Main & High Profile (on CX24182)
http://www.conexant.com/products/entry.jsp?id=109
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Sigma Designs HD decoder (Sigma Designs, Inc.)
HW HD Decoder based on SMP8630 family
http://www.sigmadesigns.com/public/Products/SMP8630/SMP8630_series.html
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Cradle Technologies H.264 (Cradle Technologies, Inc.)
HW Main profile Encoder based on CT3600 MDSP family
http://www.cradle.com/products/asw_ct3600_h264.shtml
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STMicroelectronics H.264 (STMicroelectronics)
HW HD High Profile decoder
http://www.st.com/stonline/stappl/press/news/year2006/t2052.htm
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PacketVideo H.264 (PacketVideo Corp.)
HW Base Profile encoder/decoder on ARM/OMAP/DM642
http://www.packetvideo.com/page.asp?prmid=16
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Softstream H.264/MPEG-4 (Media Excel Inc.)
SD H.264 MP Level 3 HW
http://www.mediaexcel.com/ss_hera_3000.php
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H.264 Engine for Mobile Devices (ASTRI - Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited)
http://www.astri.org/en/ic_mtm01_apv.php
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CEVA Mobile-Media2000 (CEVA, Inc.)
Chip,Base Profile encoder/decoder
http://www.ceva-dsp.com/products/platforms/mobile-media.php
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Micronas DeCypher 8100 (Micronas)
Chip,decoder with support for H.264/AVC
http://www.micronasusa.com/products/by_function/decypher_dhm8100a/applications/index.html
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Allegro H.264 encoder and ranscoder (Allegro, France)
Chip& IP cores for mobile TV and IPTV
http://www.allegrodvt.com/encoding.html
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Mobilygen's H.264 Chipset (Mobilygen Corp.)
Baseline encoder and decoder chip
http://mobilygen.com/products.htm
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4i2i's H.264 encoder and decoder IP cores (4i2i Communications Ltd.)
H.264 BP encoder, MP&HP decoder
http://www.4i2i.com/h264highbroadcastipcore.htm
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Hughes Network Systems H.264 (Hughes Network Systems, LLC)
Now only press-release with Envivio on site
http://www.envivio.com/news/press_release.php?id=53
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Telairity BE8000 1-RU HD H.264 Encoder (Telairity Inc)
Now only few words on site
http://www.telairity.com/solutions.html
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If you know any more information about H.264 codecs, please add information to Compression-links.info H.264 page (http://www.compression-links.info/MPEG-4_AVC_H264).

bond

16th June 2005, 21:23

nice overview! :)

i hope you had a look at my mpeg-4 sticky, cause there you will find hopfully uptodate descriptions of the features supported in all publically available avc codecs

acidsex

16th June 2005, 21:25

Excellent list. Would be nice to somehow be able to rank them among quality but I am sure it would take Doom9 at least a year.

I also wonder how many of the software encoders are fine tuned and optimized.

bob0r

16th June 2005, 21:45

x264 (free, supported by VideoLAN)
OPEN SOURCE. In early beta stage
http://www.videolan.org/x264.html

x264 is not beta.
x264 is just as it is, its being developed but you can only label it by revision.
http://trac.videolan.org/x264/browser/trunk/ for current revision number.

When the time is right, i am sure x264 developers may go for a beta 1,2,3 etc.. then release candidate 1,2,3 etc.. and hopelly a "stable", which may be dubbed as "1.0", will amerge.

"In early development stage" will be a better way to name it,
http://videolan.org/x264.html > BIG FAT WARNING: x264 is still in early development stage

SeeMoreDigital

16th June 2005, 21:59

Great list Dmitriy,

By the way Ateme have/had a hardware std-def 'Developement Kit' called Thunder....

Cheers

DmitriyV2

16th June 2005, 22:08

nice overview! :)
i hope you had a look at my mpeg-4 sticky, cause there you will find hopfully uptodate descriptions of the features supported in all publically available avc codecs
Thanks for comment and your mpeg-4 sticky! I found 3 new links there! :)

DmitriyV2

16th June 2005, 22:21

Excellent list. Would be nice to somehow be able to rank them among quality but I am sure it would take Doom9 at least a year.We collect this list especially for next 264 codecs testing!
I also wonder how many of the software encoders are fine tuned and optimized.Sure!

DmitriyV2

16th June 2005, 22:23

x264 is not beta.
"In early development stage" will be a better way to name it...
No problem! Fixed.

bob0r

16th June 2005, 23:26

@DmitriyV2
Cool. :goodpost:

I forgot to tell you, great list!

Would be nice if you keep it up to date in the future! :D

bond

16th June 2005, 23:52

the moonlight/elecard encoder is the same (defacto these two companies are only one company)

the avc alliance decoder is written by philips (a not uninteresting fact imho)

sony's psp also supports avc decoding

x264 is not beta.
"In early development stage" will be a better way to name it,
http://videolan.org/x264.html
uhm, even if it still says "early development" i doubt that x264 is not a serious codec

defacto its the only publically available avc high profile encoder, its supports as good as all main profile features (an exception is interlacing)

and its quality is definitely one of the best (ok, lets not tell the results of the comparison in advance ;) )

so all-in-all i dont see the point why there should be any comment like "early development" be added to it...
in contrary it should be mentioned explicitely that its the only publically available high profile encoder...

bob0r

17th June 2005, 01:03

@bond

Tell that to VideoLAN :D

But, its still early, x264 will become A LOT and A LOT better, i am sure! :goodpost:

But more seriously, yes x264 is getting better and better, but i just quoted what is on the videolan website.

"early" is objective, for some its early, for some its very mature.

DmitriyV2

17th June 2005, 02:04

the moonlight/elecard encoder is the same (defacto these two companies are only one company)
the avc alliance decoder is written by philips (a not uninteresting fact imho)
sony's psp also supports avc decoding
Thanks! Added!

defacto its the only publically available avc high profile encoder, its supports as good as all main profile features (an exception is interlacing)
and its quality is definitely one of the best (ok, lets not tell the results of the comparison in advance ;) )
Ok! ;) Reasonable.

Also thanks to bob0r!

Gusto

17th June 2005, 10:28

There are really plenty HW encoders down there:
- Harmonic
- Tut-Systems (formely VideoTele)
- Modulus
- Tandberg (mentioned)
- SCI Atlanta (mentioned)

I see really no point in comparing these against software ones. Their main purpose is really to be used by professional broadcasters to deliver Cable/SAT live TV, thus its all CBR, with narrow marigin for bitrate variablitiy. They also make extended use of SEI signalling like "pict_struct" to adapt to the source (automatic telecine detection, field duplication, etc.). I guess you can't really find any decent software CBR encoder down there to compare to HW ones (well, Nero uses Atheme which of course supports CBR, but it's not exposed in the Nero's gui).
Also have in mind that HW encoders most commonly use SDI input for video feed, so you would have to arrange some kind of SDI streaming HW (I recomend BlackMagic Decklink), which will arise questions as to how really those frames are passed to the encoder and if they arrive untouched.

The next thing is that you would need a decoder which really supports streams generated by those encoders (MBAFF/PAF, open GOP, SEI), which you'll find really hard to acquire (well, impossible at the Open Source market right now).

The last thing is that you'll probably run into difficulties into while trying to acquire those encoders, since they are pretty all in their prototyping stage, and trust me or not, those Vendors don't really like to compare them just yet.

Best,

DmitriyV2

17th June 2005, 13:12

Great list Dmitriy, By the way Ateme have/had a hardware std-def 'Developement Kit' called Thunder.... Thanks!
I found only SDK for chips only, not for PC codec. Can you send URL?

DmitriyV2

17th June 2005, 13:33

There are really plenty HW encoders down there:
- Harmonic
- Tut-Systems (formely VideoTele)
- Modulus
- Tandberg (mentioned)
- SCI Atlanta (mentioned)

Harmonic was in software (fixed), Modulus - mentioned, Tut-Systems - added, thanks!

I see really no point in comparing these against software ones. ... I guess you can't really find any decent software CBR encoder down there to compare to HW ones.
The last thing is that you'll probably run into difficulties into while trying to acquire those encoders, since they are pretty all in their prototyping stage, and trust me or not, those Vendors don't really like to compare them just yet.

Sure! Even software companies with 264 codec now did not want to be compared. :) But I think anyway it's resonable to add such companies to the end of this list.

SeeMoreDigital

17th June 2005, 13:56

Thanks!
I found only SDK for chips only, not for PC codec. Can you send URL?Here's a link to Ateme's Thunder (http://www.ateme.com/products/thunder.php) Hardware device.

I've just been reading today in one of my satellite magazines that there's a world-wide shortage of Mpeg4 AVC chip-sets for the up-coming European HDTV set-top boxes.

Apparently there are only a few hundred "near-prototype" boxes available for testing. Premiere may have to delay their planned November 1 launch date. Euro 1080 (HD1 and 2) plan to start Mpeg4 AVC HD in September. BskyB are in a flap because they can't get chips.... And Sigma (the chip-set manufacturer) have completely missed the boat, as their Mpeg4 AVC HD chip-set wont be available until Aug/Sep 05.

Cheers

DmitriyV2

17th June 2005, 23:07

Here's a link to Ateme's Thunder (http://www.ateme.com/products/thunder.php) Hardware device.

Apparently there are only a few hundred "near-prototype" boxes available for testing. Premiere may have to delay their planned November 1 launch date. Euro 1080 (HD1 and 2) plan to start Mpeg4 AVC HD in September. BskyB are in a flap because they can't get chips.... And Sigma (the chip-set manufacturer) have completely missed the boat, as their Mpeg4 AVC HD chip-set wont be available until Aug/Sep 05.
Yes, I see this link, this is not software codecs, unfortunatelly.

It's really difficult to compare HW codecs, so I collect there links, but for testing...

sasam

19th June 2005, 18:24

DmitriyV2 when do you plan to begin this testing?

Keng!

21st June 2005, 06:57

Hi!
Great to hear that the comparison is coming back for 2nd round! Here is my suggestion, how about include the codecs's compressibility and performance (speed) in the comparison? Coz in the last comparison, only the codecs's quality is tested. In my opinion, the compressibility and performance also is an important part of the codec (also the part we interested, besides quality). In the last comparison, you guys said is too early to test the codecs's compatibility, so how about this time? In last comparison, Ateme MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 beat all the codecs who took part, let see what will happens this time when x264 kick in! :D

DmitriyV2

24th June 2005, 21:54

DmitriyV2 when do you plan to begin this testing?
Now we define codecs list and tune new public metric (http://www.compression.ru/video/quality_measure/video_measurement_tool_en.html) (it's more correct to make all measurements on publically available tool).

BTW Intel fellow offer us to use Intel codecs from IPP (thay support H.264 decoder in 5.0 beta (http://www.intel.com/software/products/ipp/beta/) and going to support encoder). Of course, they suggest to add time measurements. :)

DmitriyV2

24th June 2005, 22:04

Hi! Great to hear that the comparison is coming back for 2nd round! Here is my suggestion, how about include the codecs's compressibility and performance (speed) in the comparison?
Coz in the last comparison, only the codecs's quality is tested. In my opinion, the compressibility and performance also is an important part of the codec (also the part we interested, besides quality).

Absolutely. Previous time codecs realy was not enough ready. Now situation was changed.

In the last comparison, you guys said is too early to test the codecs's compatibility, so how about this time? In last comparison, Ateme MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 beat all the codecs who took part, let see what will happens this time when x264 kick in! :D
Maybe. :) In MP3 audio codecs area we see such situation with Lame codec.

b_x20852

27th June 2005, 17:34

to DmitriyV2:

That's a pretty good job you've done with the list!

Just FYI: Thomson ViBE is a modular hardware series of encoders (not a software!)

You may also add some more hardware encoders:

SkyStream (http://www.skystream.com/press/2005/041805-mpeg4.asp) Mediaplex & iPlex platforms contain the AVC Encoder Submodule now

StreamTel E42-H264 (http://www.streamtel.com/streamtel/products/det/1_Encoders/46_E42_-_H264_DVB_over_IP_Broadcast_Encoder.htm)

Darim MV401EXP-H264 Encoder and MV410EXP Decoder (http://www.darimmedia.com/products/mv401exp-h264.php)

Mayah I [io] 8000 series (http://www.mayah.com/products/io-8000a.htm) - right now Mayah supports only MPEG-4 ASP but showed the H.264/AVC prototype at the NAB 2005, and plans to announce the AVC availability in Q3 '05.

Thales ARGOS MPEG-4 Encoder (http://www-db.thomcastcom.ext.coltfrance.com/db/thomcast/webdriver?MIval=V_Prod_Detail_b.html&F_ID=4&D_ID=1&P_ID=221) - was said to be available for sale with AVC feature in July.

JohnV

27th June 2005, 18:24

Ateme H.264/MPEG-4 AVC Codec (Ateme)
No download on original site:
http://www.ateme.com/products/h264.php
See Nero Recode from ftp://ftp.nero.com/
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There's 30 day free trial download of Nero Digital available:
http://www.nerodigital.com/eng/index.html

dand

27th June 2005, 19:11

the moonlight/elecard encoder is the same (defacto these two companies are only one company)

Not any more. Elecard team has been taken over by MainConcept. See here (http://www.mainconcept.com/press/MC-Elecard.html).

Keng!

28th June 2005, 07:51

There's 30 day free trial download of Nero Digital available:
http://www.nerodigital.com/eng/index.html

Does this meant that Nero Recode will separate from the NeroVision Express series? And NeroVision Express will not longer available? Or Nero Recode will included in both Nero Digital CE & Nero 6 Reloaded?

JohnV

28th June 2005, 10:37

Does this meant that Nero Recode will separate from the NeroVision Express series? And NeroVision Express will not longer available? Or Nero Recode will included in both Nero Digital CE & Nero 6 Reloaded?
Recode will be included in both packages.

DmitriyV2

28th June 2005, 17:21

That's a pretty good job you've done with the list!
Just FYI: Thomson ViBE is a modular hardware series of encoders (not a software!)
You may also add some more hardware encoders: ...
Big thanks! I update list.
It's looks like number of companies on this market grows faster than I think! :)

http://www.compression-links.info/MPEG-4_AVC_H264 also updated

DmitriyV2

28th June 2005, 17:33

New software solution added:

Compression Master 3 (Popwire/Teleca AB) NEW!!!
H264 encoder is all a part of Popwire's Compression Master. Demo soft available (encoding is limited to 20 seconds).
http://www.popwire.com/product_info.php?cPath=1&products_id=2

yaz

29th June 2005, 10:01

JohnV

29th June 2005, 19:47

@johnv
thx for the info ! sg really promising !

some questions :
- do i need showtime for playback or does recode install playback support available for othar players ?
- how's this recode relate to that just under beta testing ? would that be also available as a separate pack ?
- i found some strange on the trailer page. 'portable' defines as 352x288/512kbps/2.51Mb. instead sg of 5.2Mb size downloads and neither the resolution nor the bitrate meets the info. and the file generates runtime error about 95%.

thx again
yWell I'd need to verify what filters exactly the new Recode CE package installs, but I'd be surprised if you don't need to install Showtime for playback filters. I'll check this soon.
But in principle you don't need Showtime at all, if you install the latest ffdshow (http://www.aziendeassociate.it/cd.asp?dir=/ffdshow) (and enable h.264 and aac decoding in ffdshow) and Haali Media Splitter (MatroskaSplitter) (http://haali.cs.msu.ru/mkv/). FFdshow shows ND subtitles somewhat strangely, but if you install the latest VSFilter (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82303&package_id=84359), subtitles look ok. Hopefully ffdshow subtitle rendering will become better so you don't need even VSFilter anymore. That way you can have a free decoder and support for Nero Digital chapters,subtitles and multiple audio streams with any Dshow player.

Ateme provides the video coder for Nero Digital. The updated Ateme coder under beta testing will be included in Recode.

yaz

30th June 2005, 09:35

@johnv
thx for the answers ! i used the filters u suggested for playing back the trailers and everything worked fine.
maybe u know the very last ffdshow build from celtic_druid supports cqm and the deblocking part of h264 is also improved.
yep ... the subtitle part is a bit ... fuky ... in ffdshow but vsfilter is ok.

would u also take care of that broken trailer. what's linked as 'portable' is a broken version of the 'standard', my 1 bit.

thx
y

DmitriyV2

7th July 2005, 22:39

Intel IPP added. Good quality promised in future 5.0 version
Last year samples for July 2004 (we try to compile them - in early stage now) available from:
http://www.intel.com/cd/software/products/asmo-na/eng/perflib/ipp/220043.htm

DmitriyV2

19th July 2005, 23:26

Added:
Sentivision H.264/AVC Decoder (Sentivision, Japan)
Chip with 264 HD decoding
http://www.sentivision.com/products/h264/h264-en.html
---

Gusto

20th July 2005, 11:29

Added:
Sentivision H.264/AVC Decoder (Sentivision, Japan)
Chip with 264 HD decoding

Well, this one is optimized only for TI TMS320C64x family, and still, this is only the decoder.

DmitriyV2

20th July 2005, 12:53

Well, this one is optimized only for TI TMS320C64x family, and still, this is only the decoder.Sure, I note this point in list more clearly now.

Gusto

20th July 2005, 16:46

DmitriyV2

21st July 2005, 14:55

Well, I kinda said it's "optimized only for TI TMS320C64x" and not "exists only for TI TMS320C64x". You can still run in under Windows/Linux/whatever with reasonable speeds (and full set of MP features)
Sorry for the misunderstanding :)
Ok! I wrote - "Optmized for TI DSP's" :) As I see they have another TI chip optimization. Also IMHO there Windows version will have no big advantages (they did not declare such optimization).

DmitriyV2

5th September 2005, 01:21

List (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=673420#post673420) update:
+ ATI
+ WWCom
+ NEX Vision
direct link: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=673420#post673420

49 list items now.

Enjoy! :)

bond

5th September 2005, 13:28

wow really a fucking great list! thx again! :)

btw "(Einige Fakten)" next to the free avc decoder means "some facts", you might want to remove this from the implementations name ;)

DmitriyV2

5th September 2005, 13:57

wow really a fucking great list! thx again! :)
btw "(Einige Fakten)" next to the free avc decoder means "some facts", you might want to remove this from the implementations name ;)
:)))) Change to "by Martin Fiedler"

5th September 2005, 15:00

DmitriyV2

5th September 2005, 16:00

Since you also list decoders, perhaps libavcodec (http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/index.php) (used in ffmpeg, ffdshow, MPlayer etc.) should be mentioned. After all, it contains the only usable open source H.264 decoder.
Yes, I know this lib. When I see it last time - there was big problems with code.
But ok, it's updated permanently as I see:
http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/ffmpeg/libavcodec/h264.c?cvsroot=FFMpeg

Added!

Thanks!

bond

5th September 2005, 22:30

btw you should also add the nero avc decoder, cause the decoder used in nero's products was developed by nero themselves, not ateme

DmitriyV2

6th September 2005, 21:48

btw you should also add the nero avc decoder, cause the decoder used in nero's products was developed by nero themselves, not ateme
I found only http://www.nerodigital.com/enu/PR_2004_05_27.html and several places, where Nero + Ateme was declared. What link can be used for
themselves Nero AVC Decoder?

DmitriyV2

8th September 2005, 22:36

List (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=673420#post673420) update:
+ KDDI R&D Labs
+ Hughes Network Systems, LLC
+ Conexant Systems, Inc.
+ some fixes
direct link: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=673420#post673420

53 list items now.

Enjoy! :)

DmitriyV2

8th September 2005, 22:55

+ Sigma Designs

54 list items now! ;)

DmitriyV2

18th September 2005, 03:19

List (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=673420#post673420) update:
+ Cradle Technologies, Inc.
+ STMicroelectronics
+ PacketVideo Corp.
+ some fixes
direct link: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=673420#post673420

57 list items now.

Enjoy! :)

hpn

8th October 2005, 11:47

Not sure if this one is already in the list:
http://www.imagicity.com/products/products.htm

baer999

8th October 2005, 11:52

When does the new comparision of all these codecs start ?

qyqgpower

23rd October 2005, 04:38

SONY have released their AVC encoder when PSP 2.0 FW was available.

Image Converter 2 Plus
can buy it online from here
http://www.jp.sonystyle.com/Nws/Software_dl/Pc/Software/Haa/2105710489100.html

and also an AVC encoder is provided in SONY's NLE Vegas 6c(30days free trial available).
http://www.sonymediasoftware.com/products/showproduct.asp?PID=965

have discussed in this thread: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=100418

dragongodz

10th November 2005, 11:19

DmitriyV2

10th November 2005, 22:53

Not sure if this one is already in the list:
http://www.imagicity.com/products/products.htmIncluded, thanks!
SONY have released their AVC encoder when PSP 2.0 FW was available. Image Converter 2 Plus ....Good links! Thanks!
Cyberlink also have an AVC encoder aswell
http://www.cyberlink.com/multi/prod...ain_43_ENU.htmlOk! Hope 1.5 version will appear.
----------------------------------------------------------------
well!

List (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=673420#post673420) update:
+ SONY Video Editor Vegas 6c with H.264/AVC support
+ PowerEncoder MPEG-4 AVC
+ Imagicity optimised H.264/AVC codec
+ Image Converter 2 Plus
+ some fixes (remove some comments to fit in 16K)
direct link: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=673420#post673420

60 list items now.

Enjoy! :)

DmitriyV2

10th November 2005, 22:55

When does the new comparision of all these codecs start?
See http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=730020#post730020

bond

11th November 2005, 00:06

Cyberlink also have an AVC encoder aswell
http://www.cyberlink.com/multi/products/main_43_ENU.html

mpeg4 SP and AAC appear to have been introduced in version 1.5 according to 1 of their press releases, which are online there. however only version 1.0 appears to be available for download for a 30 day trial.

also the JM reference is up to version 10.1 by the way.guys check the details plz!!!
its known cyberlink doesnt have an own encoder! they till now used the one from moonlight!
so cyberlink is not an own avc encoder! its a wrapper tool for the moonlight encoder and shouldnt be listed as on own codec, but rather be totally removed or listed under moonlight

the same way mainconcept should be either removed or listed under elecard, as mainconcept uses elecards encoder

Hyper Shinchan

26th November 2005, 20:25

In the hardware list you could include the (useless imo) I-Pod 5th generation. It supports AVC baseline @L1.3, right?

DmitriyV2

30th November 2005, 23:22

List (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=673420#post673420) update:
+ t264 - Open Source "Chinese" H.264 version

Bond, I check your info - MainConcept till now have there own H.264, but current developed version is updated by Elecard team, you right.

62 list items now.

Enjoy! :)

dand

1st December 2005, 11:30

Dmitriy,

As Elecard was taken over from Moonlight by MainConcept, there is no more Moonlight (they recently announced liquidation on their web site - now even the web site is gone). Moonlight probably didn't have much of a development team, all was done in Elecarard I suspect, so when they lost Elecard they lost everything.

On the other hand, Mainconcept has it's own dev team, which is now working together with Elecard's team. The H264 codec from Elecard and MainConcept is the same, and it should not be stated twice in your list.

Also from THIS (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=100418) thread it is obvious that Sony licensed H264 from MainConcept, so I don't see the point of listing Sony eather, it's the same codec.

I would: remove Moonlight, remove Sony, join Elecard and MainConcept - 3 entries less in the list.

Hope this helped to make things clearer.

bond

2nd December 2005, 13:57

dand

2nd December 2005, 15:06

1) the moonlight avc and elecard avc encoders/decoders are totaly different ones! so moonlight shouldnt be removed

They are different - probably because Elecard's AVC evolved in the meantime. Just a guess.
Try to get the latest version of AVC from Moonlight and let us all know what's their web page.

2) i am not sure that sony uses the elecard encoder too, at least i never heard a statement about that from elecard devs, which are around on doom9
I said Sony uses MainConcept's AVC (which is now the same as Elecard's). So it's not Sony's. Download Sony Vegas trial and you will see the AVC dll properties say "mainconcept", as the above mentioned thread stated first.

I am sure you didn't miss the info about Elecard/MainConcept joining forces.

If we are interested in the future of AVC, it all comes down to the following: we will not have Moonlight's and Sony's AVC solutions, Elecard and MainConcept will provide same thing.

bond

2nd December 2005, 15:29

They are different - probably because Elecard's AVC evolved in the meantime. Just a guess.i am not guessing, i know that elecard and moonlight are totally different encoders/decoders, as the devs told me so

I said Sony uses MainConcept's AVC (which is now the same as Elecard's). So it's not Sony's. Download Sony Vegas trial and you will see the AVC dll properties say "mainconcept", as the above mentioned thread stated first. well its an indication, but might not be a 100% proove that sony uses elecards encoder

i would only say thats for sure if elecards devs confirm that its really that way

dand

2nd December 2005, 16:20

i am not guessing, i know that elecard and moonlight are totally different encoders/decoders, as the devs told me so

Did they say why? "Probably because Elecard's AVC evolved in the meantime." Or was rewritten. Also, this may be a matter of disclosure agreements, so devs might not be allowed to tell the whole truth - I don't expect them to come here and freely speak on such matters.

well its an indication, but might not be a 100% proove that sony uses elecards encoder

Well, how % possible it is that Sony placed "mainconcept" id accidentally on it's AVC!?! Let's be reasonable.

i would only say thats for sure if elecards devs confirm that its really that way
Why would devs have any idea about what the sales department is doing?

Daniel

bond

2nd December 2005, 16:23

Did they say why? "Probably because Elecard's AVC evolved in the meantime." Or was rewritten. Also, this may be a matter of disclosure agreements, so devs might not be allowed to tell the whole truth - I don't expect them to come here and freely speak on such matters.

Well, how % possible it is that Sony placed "mainconcept" id accidentally on it's AVC!?! Let's be reasonable.

Why would devs have any idea about what the sales department is doing?you are speculating, not more

i can say that a dev told me that elecard wrote their avc and mp4 stuff from scratch and i believe a elecard dev more than i believe in speculation, period

this list should be about facts and not speculation

dand

2nd December 2005, 16:46

you are speculating, not more

i can say that a dev told me that elecard wrote their avc and mp4 stuff from scratch and i believe a elecard dev more than i believe in speculation, period

this list should be about facts and not speculation

I'm not speculating, just putting 2 and 2 together.

Now I could say "writting from scratch" fits into my claim "or was rewritten", and I could say "you will not have 4 AVCs out of this 4 companies but ONE"... But I give up because you tend to miss the point in favor of writing another fast reply.

bond

2nd December 2005, 17:06

you dont seem to get it

eg if elecards decoder would be a continued moonlight decoder, than why is it so clearly damn slower than moonlight?

you are speculating and wrong...

CruNcher

2nd December 2005, 17:33

bond

2nd December 2005, 17:46

As many of you allready realized moonlights H.264 codec isn't in development any more and should be listed as (abonded) :)well moonlight is trying to sell their stuff, maybe someone will pick it up and continue developing it (their decoder is definitely very good)

and sure the're encoders/decoders on that list that are based on licenseing the H.264 Sdks from Mainconcept/Elecard out to ISVs that don't wan't to invest the research to implement support in their Products for H.264, testing those again will be mostly a waste of time. For Sony that is bitter and could mean (i don't say it is so) that they don't belive in their own H.264 implementation and if you see the latest task they doing in the Blue-Ray Case moveing back to Mpeg-2 it seems as they don't want to invest much research anymore into H.264 so licensing others High Quality Researched SDKs is easier for them. well again, i till now didnt see any proove that sony uses elecard/mainconcept. yes they seem to use "mch264dec.dll 1.1.27.0 H.264 Video Decoder Wrapper Copyright© MainConcept" and "h264vout.dll 1.1.24.0 H264 Video Wrapper Copyright© MainConcept"

now this still doesnt proove they also use the elecard encoder/decoder

Hyper Shinchan

2nd December 2005, 22:20

As many of you allready realized moonlights H.264 codec isn't in development any more and should be listed as (abonded) :) and sure the're encoders/decoders on that list that are based on licenseing the H.264 Sdks from Mainconcept/Elecard out to ISVs that don't wan't to invest the research to implement support in their Products for H.264, testing those again will be mostly a waste of time. For Sony that is bitter and could mean (i don't say it is so) that they don't belive in their own H.264 implementation and if you see the latest task they doing in the Blue-Ray Case moveing back to Mpeg-2 it seems as they don't want to invest much research anymore into H.264 so licensing others High Quality Researched SDKs is easier for them.

For Sony it's easy to forsee what their Strategy in cases of H.264 is Devices that have enough Space as Blue-Ray will use MPeg-2 and Devices that are in the Handheld criteria that run under low bandwith considerations as the PSP will use Mpeg-4 ASP/AVC and to me on a economical standpoint that is a logical stepp, Chips that will allow higher compression of Data will only bee seen on Devices that need them and Blue-Ray isnt such a device Product Costs could be minimized this way tremendously in every class, we mostly will see H.264 in STBs and for HD-DVD and as i said handheld low bandwith devices as Cellphones and Portable Media Stuff. But it would be non logic to use Higher Compression in a Device that has enough Bandwith and Space so it wouldn't need it and im sure Hollywood will see it the same way.
I don't agree with your considerations about AVC and Blue Ray disc (or any other large capability device like BD or HD-DVD).
Using AVC can implement very high quality compared to uncompressed source and lossless compression (but I doubt that they have implemented the lossless option in the BD specs, also if it uses HP@L4 and 4.1 if I'm correct).
They want to use MPEG-2 merely because:
1) they are very very stupid.
2) they want to make it backward compatible with the actual DVB broadcasting (allowing direct recording of DVB material on BD) and wi
th the actual DVD standard (and maybe because they aren't ready to use AVC yet).
At least I think so (or we'll use MPEG-2 for the next twenty years???).

Sergey A. Sablin

5th December 2005, 08:57

well moonlight is trying to sell their stuff, maybe someone will pick it up and continue developing it (their decoder is definitely very good)

well again, i till now didnt see any proove that sony uses elecard/mainconcept. yes they seem to use "mch264dec.dll 1.1.27.0 H.264 Video Decoder Wrapper Copyright© MainConcept" and "h264vout.dll 1.1.24.0 H264 Video Wrapper Copyright© MainConcept"

now this still doesnt proove they also use the elecard encoder/decoder
Ok, lets stop the rumors - _currently_ Sony uses their own AVC encoder. The binaries in Sony Vegas you are refering to is very old Mainconcept AVC encoder/decoder (before joining of Mainconcept with Elecard) that was released 8-10 month ago. Those binaries aren't used inside Sony Vegas.

DmitriyV2

10th December 2005, 23:08

Thanks for info! I'l update list soon with removing of products to separate post (this will save place for info about codecs).

CruNcher

29th December 2005, 10:56

DmitriyV2

6th April 2006, 00:31

http://www.tandbergtv.com/productview.asp?n=68 <- missing
http://focus.ti.com/dsp/docs/dspplatformscontentnp.tsp?sectionId=2&familyId=749&tabId=1398 <- missing
http://www.broadcom.com/products/Cable/HDTV-SDTV-Video,-Graphics-%26-Receiver-Chips/BCM7411D <- missing
1) Was only http://www.tandbergtv.com/productview.asp?n=65 Replaced to product page.
2) Thanks! Added!
3) Was BCM7411, Ok! replaced to BCM7411D :)

+ SPIRIT H.264

64 list items now!

Enjoy! :)

BetaBoy

6th April 2006, 01:26

DmitriyV2... can you add:

CoreAVC H.264 Video Codec (CoreCodec, Inc.)
DirectX filter
http://www.coreavc.com/

DmitriyV2

6th April 2006, 01:48

DmitriyV2... can you add:
CoreAVC H.264 Video Codec (CoreCodec, Inc.)
DirectX filter
http://www.coreavc.com/
Added!

Added also on http://www.compression-links.info/Link/2659_CoreAVC_H_264_Video_Codec_.htm
Description update welcome! (Only with confirmed info, please).

65 list items now! Enjoy! :)

BetaBoy

6th April 2006, 14:58

Added!

Added also on http://www.compression-links.info/Link/2659_CoreAVC_H_264_Video_Codec_.htm
Description update welcome! (Only with confirmed info, please).

65 list items now! Enjoy! :)

Thx... i'll let you know when our Demo version is available next month.

wiak

16th July 2006, 10:48

site for Minimal H.264 decoder is down :(
did someone catch the sourcecode? :)

DmitriyV2

15th August 2006, 13:36

Fixes:

Fix Ateme link
Fix Elecard link
Fix Moonlight link (site and company closed)
Fix MainConcept link
Fix Popwire description
Fix Pegasus Information Technology Inc. (looks like company closed)
Fix ATI link
Fix Mpegable AVC
Fix Media Excel,
Fix KDDI R&D Labs.
Fix UBLive (was acquired by Scientific Atlanta - now part of Cisco)
Fix Sonic Solutions link & description
Fix Hughes Network Systems link
Fix NEX VISION link
Imagicity now called Video Laboratories Ltd
Fix CoreCodec
Minimal H.264 decoder - link dead
Fix Sony PSP link
Fix Tandberg Telecom link
Fix Envivio 4Caster link
SkyStream Networks Inc. now part of Tanberg Television
Fix Broadcom link
Fix Scientific Atlanta - now part of Cisco
Fix Equator Technologies - now part of PixelWorks
Fix Conexant Systems link
Fix Sigma Designs link
Fix STMicroelectronics link
+ ASTRI

Any additional information or corrections are welcome!

Enjoj! :)

DmitriyV2

15th August 2006, 17:16

+ CEVA, Inc.

Enjoy! :)

Sergey A. Sablin

16th August 2006, 07:33

Fix MainConcept link (site and company closed)

What doesn mean company closed? Seems like you want to place this in front of Moonlight, isn't it?
And please remove the comment - MainConcept uses latest MainConcept's encoder, not "Elecard Encoder H.264 from March 2005". Thanks.

bond

16th August 2006, 18:55

And please remove the comment - MainConcept uses latest MainConcept's encoder, not "Elecard Encoder H.264 from March 2005". Thanks.well mainconcept uses the encoder developed by elecard, no?

DmitriyV2

17th August 2006, 12:30

What doesn mean company closed? Seems like you want to place this in front of Moonlight, isn't it?
And please remove the comment - MainConcept uses latest MainConcept's encoder, not "Elecard Encoder H.264 from March 2005". Thanks.

Sorry! Bug in "List of fixes". MainConcept & Moonlight was swapped. Main list was correct.

Fixed!

CruNcher

19th August 2006, 06:53

http://www.micronas.com/pressroom/press_releases/articles/0616/index.html?newslang=1

http://www.micronas.com/products/application/MicRacer/index.html

DmitriyV2

23rd August 2006, 12:45

Yes, Wagner Volker from Micronas GmbH already sent me info. It will be reflected in next update (hope this week). Thanks anyway!

CruNcher

24th August 2006, 11:08

http://www.ambarella.com/news/press_releases/pr_12052005.htm

shon3i

24th August 2006, 14:04

Skal's AVC / H264 codec (sklmp4) (Pascal Massimino)
No download. Announce of 264 development.
http://skal.planet-d.net/coding/mpeg4codec.html

This is probably XviD AVC

CruNcher

25th August 2006, 02:21

shon3i hehe sure his work is going into XviD AVC we know that but his website isn't anymore existing so we have to wait for the official XviD one :P

DmitriyV2

29th November 2006, 13:27

Info for soon update:

MiraVid Inc. H.264 decoder (MiraVid Inc.)
Decodec only, demo only available to OEM companies
http://www.miravid.com/product_avcDec.html
---

bSoft ltd MPEG-X/H.26X Encoder and Decoder (bSoft ltd.)
Demo on request.
http://www.bsoft.info/products/video.html
---

Any more comments-updates-fixes?

DmitriyV2

21st December 2006, 12:10

---------------------------------------

DmitriyV2

21st December 2006, 13:05

Updates:

bSoft H.264 Encoder and Decoder added
MiraVid Inc. H.264 decoder added
VSS H.264 Video Codec link fixed
Popwire Compression Master 3 - demo codec removed from site
Moonlight - removed (company closed)
SVM H.264 - removed (looks like company closed)
ATI Avivo H.264 (ATI Technologies Inc. - now part of Advanced Micro Devices Inc.), link fixed
Softstream H.264 - link fix
Sorenson AVC Pro - link fix
Roxio Popcorn with AVC - link fix
Minimal H.264 decoder -removed (link 404)
SkyStream - removed (SkyStream Networks now a part of Tandberg Television)
TI TMS320DM64x DSP - link fixed
LSI H.264 VLE4000 - link fixed
Equator BSP 15 - link removed (Equator Technologies, Inc. now part of Pixelworks, no info on site)
BT Exact H.264 Suite - removed. Link dead, and no info about 264 on the site now.
PacketVideo H.264 - link fixed
Micronas DeCypher 8100 - Added

ENJOY! :)

-------------------------------------------------------
Out-dated information:

Moonlight H.264 Video Codec (Moonlight Cordless LTD.)
Company closed (encoder was transferred to ...), DirectX filter.
http://web.archive.org/web/20050316061007/http://www.moonlight.co.il/products/consumer/oneclickavc/
This codec was developed with Elecard team.
---
SVM H.264 (Pegasus Information Technology Inc.)
Looks like company closed.
Old URLs:
http://www.h-264.com/downloads.htm
http://forum.doom9.org/archive/index.php/t-77044.html
---

Minimal H.264 decoder (by Martin Fiedler)
OPEN SOURCE. Basic decoder.
Link dead. Please replay us new link if you have this sources.
---
SkyStream Mediaplex & iPlex
Hardware box encoder.
SkyStream Networks now part of Tandberg Television
---
Equator BSP 15 (System-on-chip) (Equator Technologies, Inc. now part of Pixelworks, no info on site)
Chips. No exact codec info.
Old link:
http://www.equator.com/solutions/digitalmedia.html
---

BT Exact H.264 Suite (BT Group)
temporarily not available and NO any information about AVC or 264 on site now.
Old link:
http://www.btexact.com/technologies/ipprofiles?doc=42895
---

It's interesting to test following codecs (due to leadership clames on site):

LEAD H.264 Video codec
PowerEncoder MPEG-4 AVC

DmitriyV2

22nd December 2006, 21:35

* Small fixes
* + LSI Domino[X]

Enjoy! :)

vsv

11th January 2007, 20:27

CINEMA CRAFT® HD encoder
http://www.omnidvdmedia.com/products_cinemacrafthde.shtml

SaadShams

22nd January 2007, 20:21

:goodpost: surely helpful list ..u must have spent alot of time for this contribution..gr8 work

regards
Saad
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DmitriyV2

22nd January 2007, 21:14

surely helpful list ..u must have spent alot of time for this contribution..gr8 work
Thank you!

2vsv: Thanks, will add in with next update!

DmitriyV2

5th March 2007, 23:46

Info for soon update:

CINEMA CRAFT HD encoder (Omni Communications.)
Demo on request.
http://www.omnidvdmedia.com/products_cinemacrafthde.shtml
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Allegro H.264 encoder and ranscoder (Allegro, France)
Chip& IP cores for mobile TV and IPTV
http://www.allegrodvt.com/encoding.html
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Mobilygen's H.264 Chipset (Mobilygen Corp.)
Baseline encoder and decoder chip
http://mobilygen.com/products.htm
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4i2i's H.264 encoder and decoder IP cores (4i2i Communications Ltd.)
H.264 BP encoder, MP&HP decoder
http://www.4i2i.com/h264highbroadcastipcore.htm
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Any more comments-updates-fixes?

DmitriyV2

4th April 2007, 23:59

Info for next update:

New link for:
http://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/fhg/iis/EN/bf/amm/projects/video/index.jsp

Out-dated information:

AVC Alliance free demo player (AVC Alliance, written by Philips Electronics)
Poor but free.
http://www.avc-alliance.nl/main/downloads.htm
Link dead. Please replay us new link if you have any information.

Popwire Compression Master 3 with H.264 support (Popwire/Teleca AB)
Demo soft for MAC was on this link before (encoding is limited to 20 seconds, 30 days).
http://www.popwire.com/product_info.php?cPath=1&products_id=2
Looks like product was deleted. On 1-st page "Telestream (formerly Popwire)"

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DmitriyV2

25th May 2007, 11:49

Info for next update:

Update:

Softstream H.264/MPEG-4 (Media Excel Inc.)
Software codec info deleted, company shifted to HW market.

MPEG-2/HDV/H.264 software (KDDI R&D Labs. Inc.)
SDK become available for purchase.

Skal's AVC / H264 codec (sklmp4) (Pascal Massimino)
Host not found

Hughes Network Systems H.264
Shifted to HW list.

SPIRIT H.264 Video Codec
New URL.
http://www.spiritdsp.com/products/components/video_codecs/h264/

MainConcept H.264 SDK (MainConcept AG)
New URL.
http://www.mainconcept.com/site/?id=4786

VSS H.264 SDK
SDK removed from site.

VSS H.264 Video Codec
Codec removed from site.

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DmitriyV2

28th May 2007, 23:43

Main list was updated.

Enjoy! :)

hartford

16th June 2007, 21:13

Minimal H.264 decoder (by Martin Fiedler)

I believe that his source is here: http://keyj.s2000.ws/?page_id=41

DmitriyV2

18th June 2007, 15:42

Minimal H.264 decoder (by Martin Fiedler)
I believe that his source is here: http://keyj.s2000.ws/?page_id=41
Yes. Looks like sources was copied to this site. Thanks!

Added link:

Minimal H.264 decoder (by Martin Fiedler)
OPEN SOURCE. Basic decoder.
http://keyj.s2000.ws/?page_id=41
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DmitriyV2

21st June 2007, 14:19

Updates:
* Micronas - new URL
+ Telairity BE8000 1-RU HD H.264 Encoder (Telairity Inc)
Now only press-release with Envivio on site
http://www.telairity.com/solutions.html

Enjoy! :)

DmitriyV2

26th July 2007, 11:40

Info for next update:

Update:

BT H.264 suite (British Telecommunications plc.)
BP, MP & HP codec, PC, ARM. Available for evaluation on request.
http://www.btplc.com/Thegroup/Technologylicensing/Multimedia.htm
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H.264 Encoder for FFmpeg (Hasselt University)
OPEN SOURCE (LGPL) BP codec.
http://research.edm.uhasselt.be/h264/
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JM reference H.264 codec (supported by Joint Video Team ISO&ITU-T)
OPEN SOURCE. Can be used only for compatibility tests and research.
http://iphome.hhi.de/suehring/tml/ - URL updated
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Allegro H.264 encoder and transcoder (Allegro, France)
Broadcast enc/transcoders and IP cores for IPTV and Mobile TV
http://www.allegrodvt.com/encoding.html small updates
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LSI H.264 (LSI Logic Corp. former: VideoLocus)
New urls
Broadcast H.264 L4.1 and L4.2 encoders
http://www.lsi.com/files/docs/marketing_docs/insight_center/Domino%5B%20X%5DPro_Family_PB.pdf
http://www.lsi.com/files/docs/marketing_docs/insight_center/DX-1810_Encoder_PB.pdf
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Enjoy! :)

drmpeg

2nd August 2007, 13:55

The Consumer Electronics division of LSI Corp has been sold to Magnum Semiconductor. This includes the Domino X H.264 encoders linked in the previous post.

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/070731/aqtu503.html?.v=9

Ron

DmitriyV2

2nd August 2007, 17:39

The Consumer Electronics division of LSI Corp has been sold to Magnum Semiconductor. This includes the Domino X H.264 encoders linked in the previous post.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/070731/aqtu503.html?.v=9

I also received this info by e-mail, but anyway - king thanks! :)

mersinli33

1st January 2008, 21:28

very very :thanks:

streaming machines

18th March 2008, 10:04

Hi,
We are a new company developing h.264 codec solutions. You may visit our site at www.streaming-machines.com for further details.

jult

21st March 2008, 18:49

Would be nice to somehow be able to rank them among quality
Just to make it complete, including links to most recent tests would be nice, I think.

Here is one: http://compression.ru/video/codec_comparison/mpeg-4_avc_h264_2007_en.html
which rates MainConcept and x264 as the best two, by far, but such tests rarely include all existing H.264 codecs.

andru123

8th May 2008, 23:45

why Handbrake is not listed?

Dark Shikari

8th May 2008, 23:52

why Handbrake is not listed?It isn't a codec, its a GUI for x264.

seunghoon

12th September 2009, 09:14

Hi,
We are a new company developing h.264 encoder. You may visit our site at www.discretephoton.com for further details.

ludrao

16th September 2009, 21:52

Another open source H264 decoder is available here (http://www.ludrao.net/ludh264).

audyovydeo

21st September 2009, 12:34

Hi,
We are a new company developing h.264 encoder. You may visit our site at www.discretephoton.com for further details.

Encoder capability
Supported H.264 profiles: Baseline.
Supported H.264 levels: Up to 5.1.

I registered to download the test version, but then I noticed this ... have you got High profile in the pipeline at all ?

thanks
audyovydeo

seunghoon

23rd September 2009, 01:16

Encoder capability
Supported H.264 profiles: Baseline.
Supported H.264 levels: Up to 5.1.

I registered to download the test version, but then I noticed this ... have you got High profile in the pipeline at all ?

thanks
audyovydeo

No, sorry. :-)