ATEME to add AC-3 pass-through to its MPEG-4 AVC Professional Software encoder

January 24, 2007 - Bievres, France

ATEME, a leading provider of MPEG-4 AVC / H.264 live encoders and storage encoders, adds Dolby Digital AC-3 pass-through to its integrated MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Professional Software Encoder. AC-3 Stereo or 5.1 multichannel audio is hence associated to best-in-class video quality, to deliver the best consumer experience.

ATEME's MPEG-4 AVC Professional software encoder is the perfect and fast HD content generation solution to guarantee the ultimate encoding operation, delivering MPEG-2 TS files for immediate usage in VOD servers. This product enables content delivery from HDTV to mobile systems. The Windows™ based application is easy to use locally or remotely in manual or automated ways - batch manager and dropping directories associated to custom presets allow one-click encoding or integration in an automated workflow.

ATEME AVC Professional Software Encoder has been worldwide adopted, and allowed the first deployment of HD content delivery over DSL in Europe and Asia.

"After thorough evaluation, we have selected the Ateme offline encoder in order to deliver to Hanaro Telecom's customers the best video quality at lower bitrate, in particular for VOD content delivery" says M. Dae-Cheol Kim / Marketing Manager at Hanaromedia.

The ATEME MPEG-4 AVC Professional Software Encoder is available to professional end-users, integrators and OEMs.

About ATEME

ATEME is a world-leading provider of MPEG-4 / H.264 video compression solutions. ATEME's renowned technology supports both standard and HD content, deployed across any platform from mobile to Ultra HD. ATEME provides broadcasters, telcos and security providers with unmatched compression quality and bandwidth efficiency.

ATEME Because Content Deploys Everywhere