Picus Tech has the most comprehensive portfolio of Video Codecs targeted for multiple platforms. All implementations are highly optimized for a target and provide a world class performance on the target platforms.
The codecs can be readily integrated in several ways, as libraries, as Gstreamer plugins for Linux/Android platforms.
Our codec portfolio on ARM platforms is most extensive and highly optimized to take advantage of SIMD instruction set.
Evaluation versions of all codecs are available.
MPEG-1/2 Video is widely used in Video CDs, Digital cable/satellite TV, DVD formats. MPEG-2 supports higher quality video than MPEG-1. MPEG-1 standard profile supports up to 352x288 resolution, 1.5 Mbps bit rate. MPEG-2 standard profile supports up to 720x480 resolution and 4 Mbps to 9 Mbps.
MPEG 2 Profile
MPEG 2 Levels
Plug-ins Available
Supported Platforms
Picus Tech Implementation
H.263 standard was developed in 1996 by ITU-T VCEG as enhancement to existing H.261 standard. H.263 was evolution in video compression technology to fulfil demand of video conferencing in low bit rate communication. H.263 introduced new tools for better compression with lower complexity in decoding. These new tools were,
There are public and proprietary variations in H.263 bit stream.
Applications
Plug-ins Available
Supported Platforms
Picus Tech Implementation
H.264 was joint development of MPEG and VCEG which aimed at better compression than H.263 and MPEG-4 Part 2. H.264 is also known as ‘Advanced Video Coding (AVC)', ‘MPEG-4 Part 10' and ‘ITU-T Recommendation H.264'. H.264 provides approximately 50-70% more compression than earlier standards.
H.264 introduced following new techniques for better compression
Applications
Plug-ins Available
Supported Platforms
Picus Tech Implementation
Supported Bit stream profiles
MPEG-4 Visual (Part 2 of ISO/IEC 14496) is a comprehensive standard for visual content. Visual content on which standard operates are moving video, video objects, animated human, static texture etc. The standard provides methods and tools for representing visual data in compressed form. The implementation here relates to video content only.
Picus Tech's implementation for MPEG-4 video includes Advanced Simple Profile, which is superset of Simple Profile and can provide more compression.
Simple Profile
Advanced Simple Profile
Applications
Plug-ins Available
Supported Platforms
Picus Tech Implementation
Supported Bit streams
H.264 was joint development of MPEG and VCEG which aimed at better compression than H.263 and MPEG-4 Part 2. H.264 is also known as ‘Advanced Video Coding (AVC)', ‘MPEG-4 Part 10' and ‘ITU-T Recommendation H.264'. H.264 provides approximately 50-70% more compression than earlier standards. Picus Tech's implementation for H.264 video encoder includes Baseline Profile.
Features
Applications
Plug-ins Available
Supported Platforms
Picus Tech Implementation
MPEG-4 Visual (Part 2 of ISO/IEC 14496) is a comprehensive standard for visual content. Visual content on which standard operates are moving video, video objects, animated human, static texture etc. Picus Tech's implementation for MPEG-4 video encoder includes Simple Profile.
Features
Applications
Plug-ins Available
Supported Platforms
Picus Tech Implementation
Video encoder/decoder works for all video resolution settings, limited only by available memory
Simple and easy to use API, which allows easy integration
Limited usage of slower external memory, which ensures high performance on platforms using external memories
Fully re-entrant to permit multiple instances and ease of memory allocation
Easily extendible to other platforms
Cortex A Series - A5(NEON SIMD), A7, A8, A9
Other Processors - ARMADA 168
Classic ARM Processors
Gstreamer for Linux and Android
Windows Mobile 6.x