By Staff, October 1, 2008
Telestream's Pipeline HD Dual real-time ingest-encode device relies on Ambric’s Am2045 Massively Parallel Processing Array (MPPA) devices.
Pipeline HD Dual encodes two 1080i high-definition streams into Apple ProRes 422 format in real time, offering fast encoding times, great density and format flexibility. In addition to ProRes 422, Pipeline HD Dual is able to encode AVC-Intra, DNxHD/VC-3, DVCPRO HD, DV, IMX and MPEG-2 formats by utilizing the inherent programmability of the Ambric devices. These and other codecs are available as part of Ambric’s Rapid Media Processing (RMP) platform.
The TeraOPS-class Am2045 MPPA devices were chosen by Telestream in lieu of alternative solutions to meet aggressive time-to-market requirements and HD performance needs. “Using the RMP platform, we were able to develop three real-time codecs with two engineers in six months—more than three times faster than we would have achieved using FPGAs or DSPs,” explains Shawn Carnahan, CTO, Telestream.
The Am2045 MPPA powering the Pipeline Dual HD product enables multi-format encoding on a single device. The scalable, massively parallel processors on Ambric’s family of devices give customers the ability to radically increase their channel density.
“That the Telestream design reached production in such a short timeframe is a testament to our ability to get customers to market quickly while they still meet or exceed their performance requirements,” says Joe Herbst, vice president of marketing at Ambric.
Telestream's Pipeline Network Encoder received a Vidy Award from Videography magazine at NAB 2007.
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