bitcontrol MPEG-2 Decoder 3.0

Description for bitcontrol MPEG-2 Decoder

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The bitcontrol® MPEG-2/4, H.263 video and audio decoder is suited for Windows Media® Player, bitcontrol® Quad Recorder and other players for MS Windows® 98/ME/2K/XP/Vista32/64. Both decoder parts, video and audio, are running as built-in DirectShow® Filter under MS Windows®. The decoder supports DirectX® Video Acceleration, DXVA 1.0 and DXVA 2.0 for Vista 32/64. Therefore, HDTV is playable on Celeron processors <1GHz.

The bitcontrol® MPEG-2/4 decoder is very robust against input failures, like drop outs of the input stream, bit errors and other signal failure. So, the decoder is very suitable for DVB-T, DVB-S and internet streaming applications.

The bitcontrol® Video Decoder distinguish oneself by excellent color brilliance. This is based on 4:2:2 color upsampling and a correct color allocation on decoding for MPEG-2.

The bitcontrol® MPEG-2/4 decoder is capable of real-time decoding of MPEG video bitstreams of most important profiles and levels up to High Levels with 80 Mbps, including 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 chroma formats, e.g. for Main Profile@Main Level. The decoder is compatible with ISO/IEC13818-2 (MPEG-2 video), ITU-T H.263 and ISO/IEC 14496-2 (MPEG-4) standards. Most of the standard requirements are implemented, except minor usual features, e.g. the scalable mode features "Spatial" and "SNR".

The bitcontrol® MPEG-2 Audio Decoder supports the audio formats LPCM and MPEG-1 Layer 1/2. For video files using the AC-3 audio code, audio filters of third parties have to be used.

The bitcontrol® MPEG-2/4 decoder is highly optimized for Intel® MMX-, SSE-, SSE2- or SSE3-equipped and multi-core processors. It runs on all suitable Intel® Pentium® processors greater Pentium® II, 300 MHz and corresponding AMD processors.

The bitcontrol® MPEG-2/4 decoder contains additional useful features for customer applications, like overlay rendering of bitmaps with 7-Bit alpha blending, capturing as JPEG-file, clock rendering etc.