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About AVC-I and AVC-Intra™

Two profiles of the MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 codec, AVC-I and AVC-Intra™, use only intra coding, as opposed to AVC long GOP, which processes video in multiple frame types including I, P, and B.

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Everything you should know about Stereoscopic 3D compression

Side by Side, Top and bottom, Line interleaved and others, all compression technology foreseen for the distribution of stereoscopic 3D content is presented in a single and simple document.

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Satellite bit rate recommendation

Bit-rate capacities for satellite transmission using DVB-S and DVB-S2 modulation are well know, but this does not translate easily to video encoder operational configurations.

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Which compression technology should be used ?

Different technologies are widely used to compress and transport broadcast videos: Uncompressed over fiber, JPEG-2K or AVC-I Intra-frame technologies requiring high bit-rate, MPEG-4 or MPEG-2 long GOP technologies requiring low bit-rate.

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Why 4:2:2 10-bit video compression?

AVC/H.264 profiles designed for distribution process video as 4:2:0 8-bit. Since the SDI links transport 4:2:2 10-bit signals, video components need to be downscaled and sub-sampled prior to encoding and up-scaled and up-sampled after decoding.

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Why does 10-bit save bandwidth (even when content is 8-bit)?

Along with many other encoding tools, 10-bit compression is an addition to AVC/H.264 that was not available in MPEG-2.

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14 May

ATEME presents HEVC codec in Brazil

Tuesday, 7th of May 2013 - Gustavo Bevilacqua Dutra, ATEME Field Application Engineer for Brazil, was invited to speak about the new 4k video compression codec - HEVC (High Efficiency Video Encoding) at a Post-NAB conference in Sao Paulo, Brazil. This conference, organised for the 7th time by one of the main broadcast magazine in the country Panorama Audiovisual, was received with a great success by professionals engaged in the television production and other manufacturers interested in this subject.

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