By Elina Shatkin, December 22, 2004
Popwire, a Teleca company, began shipping its Server media coding software, Compression Engine 2 running on Mac OS X. It is a digital media coding system for Broadcasting companies, media houses, ISP's and mobile operators who deal with large amounts of content. The Compression Engine 2 follows Compression Master 3, which was the first Mac OS X tool on the market with support for Windows Media 9. Other new features are Real SureStream, MPEG-2 and DV transcoding.
Compression Engine 2 is fully compatible with existing broadcasting and streaming formats and does not require customizations or pre-formatting of input sources.
Popwire Compression Engine minimizes "time to-show-time" by automating the coding routine and tightly integrating into your production workflow. Compression Engine makes simple and straightforward coding and quality decisions itself so that you have more time to focus on the quality decisions that actually matter.
Popwire Compression Engine enables users to encode media for distribution to all kinds of audiences - from television, postproduction, web casting, to video-enabled mobile phones
. Particular strengths include its server-grade reliability, encoding speed, and its strong preprocessing capabilities.
"We are pleased to follow up the successful launch of Compression Master 3 with the new Compression Engine 2. We know that many broadcasters and media houses struggle with supporting different distribution formats. With the Compression Engine 2, we have broadened the format support even further. This is a solution that saves both time and money. As business grows, the Compression Engine will scale according to your needs", says Åsa Sundqvist, CEO Popwire.
Other highlights in this new release are a new speed and quality optimized MPEG-4, 2-pass H.263, in and out points, fractional frame rate filter, EVRC and QCELP speech codecs and streaming support for 3GPP2, transcoding between NTSC and PAL, MPEG-2 VBR support and HD input.
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