At IBC, Dolby announced Dolby Pulse, the newest addition to its portfolio of audio technologies.
Dolby Pulse is a bit-stream format and dedicated encoder and decoder solution. Built on and compatible with the MPEG-4 HE-AAC, an open-standard audio codec, Dolby Pulse provides new audio delivery technology to HD television, mobile phones, portable media players, PCs, and online entertainment. more
Rhozet is demonstrating the Carbon Coder. This is a universal transcoding application that enables the transfer of media between applications like acquisition, editing, playout, Web apps or mobile channels. It supports more tha 40 major formats and can run as a stand-alone application or as part of a multinode, fully-automated rendering farm under the control of Carbon Server.
As part of the transcode process, Carbon Coder handles a wide array of related tasks including; SD/HD conversion, PAL/NTSC conversion, logo insertion, color space conversion, color correction, and closed captioning extraction. Carbon Coder can be run via its user interface or via an XML-based API that is included with the product. The same API controls both Carbon Coder and Carbon Server. Some of the formats it supports include; MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.263, H.264, VC-1, Flash, DV25, DV50, DVCPro
DPS, DivX, JPEG 2000, DNxHD, AVCIntra, Windows Media and RealVideo. That pretty much covers the playing field.
You can see the Carbon Coder in the Rhozet stand 7.J11.
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