MainConcept Releases World's Fastest H.264/AVC Software Decoder.

Allows for High Quality Full Motion HD Playback on Currently Available PCs

AACHEN, Germany -- MainConcept, a worldwide leader in codec technology, today announced it has released version 3.0 of its award winning H.264/AVC video decoder to key OEM customers in the broadcast, Hollywood, consumer electronics and software markets. This new version offers significant speed and quality improvements to MainConcept customers through supporting the DXVA hardware acceleration feature found in premium graphics cards from ATI and nVidia. MainConcept has also added architectural and processor specific optimizations in close collaboration with leading semiconductor manufacturers. MainConcept also performed intensive testing with H.264/AVC DVB-S2 streams to provide a smooth and error resilient playback of digital TV signals sent by satellite. The new decoder also adds support for leading audio formats like AAC and AC3 audio.

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"MainConcept has always been acknowledged as the leader in the high quality and high performance video encoding market," said MainConcept Sales Director Muzaffer Beygirci, "but now with the release of our new H.264/AVC video decoder, we expect to be the leader for video decoding as well. The quality and speed of our new Decoder is ideal for the most demanding professional applications, including markets such as Blu-Ray, HD-DVD, Mobile TV, HD-Broadcasting, video podcasting and video-on-demand solutions."

A free demo version of the MainConcept AVC/H.264 decoder is available for instant download at http://www.mainconcept.com. The product is also available for OEM bundling. Interested parties should contact [e-mail], in order to obtain further information and discuss licensing procedures.

About MainConcept

MainConcept - The Codec People is a world leader in video codec technology for film, post production, broadcasting, television, video industries, communications, consumer applications and many more business fields. Over the years MainConcept has developed a complete range of all-important standards-based codecs for the PC and established long term relationships with many leading companies allover the world. With its team of experts, MainConcept has been working on the strategy: 'Every Codec, Every Platform.' Based on its dominating codec position in the PC market, the company is now entering the embedded and broadcast markets by porting its video codecs to many new embedded systems, doing IP cores for FPGAs, and building its own hardware platform for real-time, broadcast-quality encoding.

Additional information is available at www.mainconcept.com.