The new version of MainConcept Reference is now available with DivX Encoder & Decoder option for Windows. With standard presets ranging from video for mobile devices up to HD video it offers a seamless way to encode video footage into DivX compliant streams. Five presets are available to match the various device preferences.
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Codec SDK 7.6

Simultaneously provided for Windows, Mac/Intel, and Linux, our flagship Software Development Kit is now available with a DivX codec option too. Development partners can integrate one of the most popular encoding formats for movies on the PC into their own cross-platform solutions using MainConcept codec technology.
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High-Quality Developer Products

MainConcept is the leader in high quality video & audio codec solutions, offering customers and partners a portfolio of products that perform the full range of video encoding and decoding for various standards and platform. MainConcept provides professional Software Development Kits (SDKs) for various industry standards and platforms including PCs, set-top boxes, portable media players and mobile phones.
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Professional Consumer Products

Worldwide, there is an increasing demand to provide professional codec, editing and transcoding solutions. MainConcept’s prosumer product line enables the delivery of such solutions within professional software packages of leading companies such as Adobe®. In addition, a fully fledged transcoding solution provides a best-in-class desktop tool to move video and audio content from one format to another.
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MainConcept wins 4th Annual MSU Video Codec Award

Based on the quality results, Moscow State University’s Graphics & Media Lab rated MainConcept’s H.264 encoder overall best among the leading encoding solutions worldwide. The overall goal of the annual comparison is the evaluation of the leading H.264 codec implementations using objective metrics. MainConcept has demonstrated its codec quality in all selected scenarios of video conferencing, movies, and most dominantly HDTV. "It was the second time MainConcept participated in the MSU Comparison, the leading benchmark for H.264 codecs - and we won second time in a row. We are proud having ranked first in the list of strong competitors again" said Markus Moenig, founder and Managing Director of MainConcept.
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MainConcept – Every Codec, Every Platform

MainConcept is the worldwide leading provider of high-quality codec technology for the broadcast, film, consumer electronics, computer software, medical imaging and security markets. Our products support the most popular industry standards such as MPEG-1/2, MPEG-4 Part 2, H.264/AVC, VC-1, DV, DVCPRO 25/50, DVCPro HD, JPEG2000, AAC, HE-AAC and Dolby Digital.

The MainConcept name and its codecs have become synonymous with quality, innovation, and cost-effectiveness in video & audio encoding and decoding. To better reflect this and the broad use of our products to our partners and the industry, MainConcept introduced its Codec-By logo program in early 2007.

MainConcept customers include some of the most respected international companies such as Adobe, Leitch/Harris, Microsoft, mobiTV, Sonic Solutions, Sony, and Panasonic. Since November 2007, MainConcept is a wholly owned subsidiary of DivX, Inc.