Ateme Participates in MPEGIF's H.264 Interoperability Tests.PARIS Paris, in Greek mythology Paris or Alexander, in Greek mythology, son of Priam and Hecuba and brother of Hector. Because it was prophesied that he would cause the destruction of Troy, Paris was abandoned on Mt. -- ATEME (www.ateme.com), a leading provider of hardware and software solutions for audio and video compression on DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive , PC and FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) A type of gate array that is programmed in the field rather than in a semiconductor fab. Containing up to hundreds of thousands of gates, there are a variety of FPGA architectures on the market. , participates in MPEGIF's MPEG-4 AVC interoperability tests. MPEGIF (MPEG Industry Forum, www.mpegif.org) A Swiss not-for-profit organization devoted to the advancement of MPEG-4, MPEG-7 and MPEG-21 standards worldwide. Founded in 2000 as M4IF and renamed MPEGIF in 2003, the organization does not license MPEG, but is involved in discussions (www.m4if.org), is a world-famous organization created to promote MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group) An ISO/ITU standard for compressing digital video. Pronounced "em-peg," it is the universal standard for digital terrestrial, cable and satellite TV, DVDs and digital video recorders (DVRs). emerging standards and ensure their interoperability. Ateme is a member of MPEGIF since 2004 and is participating in the next round of interoperability tests for ISO/IEC ISO/IEC International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission (ITU-T M 3000) MPEG-4 AVC, also known under the name ITU-T See ITU. ITU-T - International Telecommunications Union H.264, organized by MPEGIF. Full results are expected for the end of December 2004. This new round of interoperability tests will verify mutual encoder and decoder product interoperability among international leaders in video compression. This work will make sure MPEGIF member products are indeed interoperable, thereby increasing product confidence on the market. Ateme is participating with its Baseline and Main Profile H.264 encoder and decoder: --H.264 (MPEG-4 part 10 / AVC), encoder on x86 (PC), --H.264 (MPEG-4 part 10 / AVC), decoders on DSP and x86 (PC). Ateme's H.264 offer covers PC (x86), DSP and FPGA targets. Testing process: The participating companies have agreed on the MPEGIF test plan related to this interoperability test round. --Companies with relevant encoder products generate bitstreams and post them to a common location; --Companies with relevant decoder products download the bitsreams and test them in order to identify any interoperability problems. --Encoder- and decoder-providing companies work out any problems in a collaborative way. About Ateme: Ateme, headquartered in France, member of MPEGIF and co-developer of NeroDigital(TM) with Ahead Software, is a world-leading provider of hardware and software systems for Video compression on DSP, GPP (General Purpose Processor) and FPGA with its evaluation boards, its compression algorithms (WM9(TM), H.264, MPEG-4, MPEG-2...), and market-oriented reference designs which target video-security, broadband and multimedia domains. Ateme operates worldwide thanks to its distribution network in Europe, Asia and North America. |
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