MainConcept is the world‘s leading provider of software development kits for adding audio and video encoding, decoding, transcoding and streaming to software applications. MainConcept SDKs power many of the most popular broadcast, professional and consumer applications in the market today. Our combination of high quality encoding and decoding, performance optimized for the latest processors and operating systems, as well as support for all of the major international codec standards in use today makes MainConcept the development community‘s favorite source for codec technology.

MainConcept codec SDKs are available as Low Level C++ APIs for Windows, Mac OS and Linux as well as DirectShow filters. MainConcept SDKs are complete toolkits with all the components a developer would need including encoders, decoders, muxers, demuxers, scalers, converters and streaming components. Also included are presets for the most popular formats such as DVD, Blu-ray, AVCHD, Apple iPod, Sony PSP, Adobe Flash, Sony XDCAM and Panasonic P2, ensuring an application will have precise format compliance and the widest compatibility possible.

Whether the application is a high quality Hollywood Blu-ray authoring station, a bitrate sensitive internet video streaming application, a low latency real-time video conferencing system or a high performance industrial scale transcoding farm, MainConcept Codec SDKs provide the backbone technology to power leading edge software solutions.

AMERICAS
Dirk Peters
MainConcept LLC
dirk.peters@rovicorp.com
Phone: +1 (925) 640 6315

EMEA
Stefan Jonas
MainConcept GmbH
stefan.jonas@rovicorp.com
Phone: +49 241 401080

APAC
Masashi Nemoto
MainConcept Japan, Inc.
masashi.nemoto@rovicorp.com
Phone: +81 (6) 4807-7177

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