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MainConcept™ SVC
Scalable Video Coding
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Scalability has been present in former video coding standards, but was never adopted broadly for various reasons.
With SVC (Scalable Video Coding) as an extension of the well established H.264/AVC standard, the industry is now on its way to deliver on today’s scalability requirements. This exciting new video compression format allows decoding of partial bit streams, in order to offer video footage with lower spatial or temporal resolutions or a lower quality video signal - out of one source. Multiple receivers of a SVC stream can select the partial bit stream that fits their needs best.
The video stream for each device is necessarily different. SVC is beneficial in this regard and superior to other codecs. It solves problems related to serving individual video streams in ‘layers’ (see below) for various devices by offering a single-source solution for different device categories and applications. Video processing applications will benefit from this in various areas:
- Simpler management and less storage space of media data due to single-sourcing
- Better bandwidth adoption for device categories – either at start-up or dynamically while transmitting
- Little to no transcoding efforts with an with an overall less complex processing workflow
- Better Quality of Service for users in non-managed network environments (e.g. Internet, Web Cloud)
Availability
MainConcept SVC is available for Microsoft Windows and Linux.
Encoder and Decoder for Windows available as DirectShow and LowLevel components as well.