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DmitriyV2
16th June 2005, 20:20
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, 20:23
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, 20:25
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, 20:45
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, 20:59
Great list Dmitriy,

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


Cheers

DmitriyV2
16th June 2005, 21:08
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, 21:21
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, 21:23
x264 is not beta.
"In early development stage" will be a better way to name it...
No problem! Fixed.

bob0r
16th June 2005, 22:26
@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, 22:52
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, 00:03
@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, 01:04
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, 09:28
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, 12:12
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, 12:33
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, 12:56
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, 22:07
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, 17:24
DmitriyV2 when do you plan to begin this testing?

Keng!
21st June 2005, 05:57
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, 20:54
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, 21:04
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, 16:34
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, 17:24
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, 18:11
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, 06:51
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, 09:37
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, 16:21
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, 16:33
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, 09:01
@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
y

JohnV
29th June 2005, 18:47
@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, 08:35
@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, 21:39
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, 22:26
Added:
Sentivision H.264/AVC Decoder (Sentivision, Japan)
Chip with 264 HD decoding
http://www.sentivision.com/products/h264/h264-en.html
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Gusto
20th July 2005, 10:29
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, 11:53
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, 15:46
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 :)

DmitriyV2
21st July 2005, 13:55
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, 00:21
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, 12:28
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, 12:57
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"

nm
5th September 2005, 14:00
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.

DmitriyV2
5th September 2005, 15:00
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, 21:30
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, 20:48
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, 21:36
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, 21:55
+ Sigma Designs

54 list items now! ;)

DmitriyV2
18th September 2005, 02:19
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, 10:47
Not sure if this one is already in the list:
http://www.imagicity.com/products/products.htm

baer999
8th October 2005, 10:52
When does the new comparision of all these codecs start ?

qyqgpower
23rd October 2005, 03:38
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