VideoTele.com Inc. has announced the addition of
real-time MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 digital video transcoding capabilities to the
company's Astria content processor.
VideoTele.com's Astria processor delivers MPEG-4
video within an MPEG transport stream over transmission types including digital
terrestrial TV, digital cable, and digital broadband platforms such as DSL and
fiber to the home (FTTH).
VideoTele.com has tapped iVAST to deliver the first
MPEG-4 offering for digital video head-end systems. The two companies
expect to demonstrate VideoTele.com's Astria content processor with MPEG-4 next
week at the National Association of Broadcasters show (NAB) in Las Vegas.
The demonstration will deliver MPEG-2 video into
the Astria content processor, which will transcode the content into MPEG-4 ASP
video, then wrap the MPEG-4 video within an MPEG transport stream before
delivering it to a set-top box (STB) by means of Internet Protocol (IP) packets
over a Gigabit Ethernet physical interface. The STB will decode both MPEG-2 and
MPEG-4 signals.
"As our Astria content processor continues to
evolve in step with next generation video compression formats, we're excited to
debut the first platform that supports both the MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 standards for
full frame rate, full resolution video," said parent company Tut Systems
president, chairman, and CEO Sal D'Auria in a prepared statement. "The
flexibility of the Astria platform's DSP-based architecture offers customers a
solution that is software upgradeable and enables them to deploy the industry's
leading video formats -- whether they are standards-based or
proprietary."
Source: E-insite.net
