Fixstars incorporates Powerful MVC 3D Encoding Engine and Reduces Price to the Fastest H264 Encoder in the Professional Market

TOKYO, JAPAN, October 01, 2010 (Press-News.org) Fixstars Corporation, a lead developer of video compression technology, today announces the release of the latest version of its h.264 software encoder Accelcoder V2.0. Using this professional encoder, studios and postproduction houses can integrate an easy to use interface, high video quality fidelity and fastest MVC H.264 encoder for 3D Blu-ray productions in one inclusive turnkey solution.

MVC Encoding for 3D Blu-ray Production:
Studios are eager in meeting the growing demand for 3D home entertainment. Accelcoder helps studios update current workflows by integrating an easy to use encoder compliant with 3D Blu-ray specifications from the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA). Accelcoder efficiently encodes the dual left-eye and right-eye streams in the Multi-view Coding MVC codec fundamental for 3D Blu-ray authoring. The data intensive 3D encoding process takes advantage of the speed native to Accelcoder's multicore architecture making it one of the fastest 3D encoders in the market.

Enhanced direct encoding functionality:

Accelcoder real time encoding ability allows for directly encoding VTR tapes from deck to H.264 files in one simple step. New features for this functionality include SDI display of the input stream while source is being encoded.
Improved user interface:
Fixstars is keen in integrating user feedback. Accelcoder V2.0 has a new and friendlier user interface that incorporates many customer comments. High volume projects go smoothly with an improved batch encoding function. Moreover, adjustment of the image quality settings such as prefilter, IDR picture insertion, and custom matrix can be set intuitively on the time line.

Accelcoder price has been reduced and provides the best value of quality, professional tools for its price. 2D and 3D H.264 encoding is included in the same turnkey system. This solution is the ideal H.264 video encoder for post production, Blu-ray and IPTV professionals. It was previously called CodecSys Pro. Accelcoder is being used by several studios, and it is utilized widely for industries that need to encode large amounts of contents such as Blu-ray authoring and IPTV.
For more details on Accelcoder, please visit:
http://codec.fixstars.com/en/pro/
or Contact Camilo Lopez at camilo@fixstars.com for North America sales.

Fixstars Corporation provides software technology solutions that target GPU and Cell/B.E. computing environments. Its vision is for a future where multi-core microprocessors are the standard. Fixstars accelerates the performance of multi-core based operations through provision of a complete, integrated ecosystem with specific turn-key products for Finance, Medical, Manufacturing, and Digital media markets.
For more information, visit http://www.fixstars.com/en