Rapid Development of High-Performance Video Processing on 2nd Generation Intel Core Processors

For companies that develop video creation and playback applications, keeping pace with the evolutionary processor lifecycle is a daunting, however critical, task to maintaining market position and meeting customer demands for better/faster product capabilities. Maintaining the optimized code base to satisfy these expanding ecosystems or hardware platforms is not only expensive but time consuming and resource intensive. Known for solving this cost vs time-to-market dilemma for hundreds of companies in this area is MainConcept®, part of Professional Technology Division at Sonic Solutions. Their recently released H.264/AVC Encoder for Intel® Quick Sync Video (QSV) is a key solution which gives developers a fast and convenient way to optimize video processing routines for delivering maximum performance on 2nd generation Intel Core processors and a broad range of current as well as future Intel client PC platforms including multi-core architectures.

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To provide faster video encoding than is possible on a CPU alone, MainConcept has developed codecs capable of running on graphics processors (GPUs). Graphics Processors are highly parallel processors capable of running thousands of threads simultaneously. By taking advantage of these parallel processors, video can be encoded faster while simultaneously offloading the CPU.