Allows for High Quality Full Motion HD
Playback on Currently Available PCs

AACHEN, Germany–(BUSINESS WIRE)–MainConcept, a
worldwide leader in codec technology, today announced it has released version
3.0 of its award winning H.264/AVC video decoder to key OEM customers in the
broadcast, Hollywood, consumer electronics and software markets. This new
version offers significant speed and quality improvements to MainConcept
customers through supporting the DXVA hardware acceleration feature found in
premium graphics cards from ATI and nVidia. MainConcept has also added
architectural and processor specific optimizations in close collaboration with
leading semiconductor manufacturers. MainConcept also performed intensive
testing with H.264/AVC DVB-S2 streams to provide a smooth and error resilient
playback of digital TV signals sent by satellite. The new decoder also adds
support for leading audio formats like AAC and AC3 audio.

Decoding Speed Benchmarks

“MainConcept has always been acknowledged as the
leader in the high quality and high performance video encoding market, id=bwanpa2>“ said MainConcept Sales Director Muzaffer Beygirci, id=bwanpa3>‘but now with the release of our new H.264/AVC video decoder,
we expect to be the leader for video decoding as well. The quality and speed of
our new Decoder is ideal for the most demanding professional applications,
including markets such as Blu-Ray, HD-DVD, Mobile TV, HD-Broadcasting, video
podcasting and video-on-demand solutions.”

A free demo version of the MainConcept AVC/H.264
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obtain further information and discuss licensing procedures.

About MainConcept

MainConcept – The Codec People is a world leader in
video codec technology for film, post production, broadcasting, television,
video industries, communications, consumer applications and many more business
fields. Over the years MainConcept has developed a complete range of
all-important standards-based codecs for the PC and established long term
relationships with many leading companies allover the world. With its team of
experts, MainConcept has been working on the strategy: id=bwanpa4>‘Every Codec, Every Platform.‘ Based
on its dominating codec position in the PC market, the company is now entering
the embedded and broadcast markets by porting its video codecs to many new
embedded systems, doing IP cores for FPGAs, and building its own hardware
platform for real-time, broadcast-quality encoding.

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