MainConcept won the “Third Annual MSU MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Video Codecs Comparison” of the MSU Video Group

Aachen, Germany and Tomsk, Russia - December, 2006 - The goal of the comparison is a comparative evaluation of the quality of new H.264 codecs using objective metrics. The complete test consisted of three types of application, which strongly differ by resolution, bitrates and encoding speed requirements: Videoconferences, Movies and HDTV.

The codecs were scored in the following order:
1. MainConcept
2. x264
3. VSS
4. DivX (MPEG-4 ASP)
5. Intel H.264

Learn more about the MSU comparison and the testing results.






About MainConcept
MainConcept is a world leader in video codec technology for film, post production, broadcasting, IPTV, security, surveillance, communication and consumer applications. Over the years MainConcept has developed a complete range of standards-based codecs for the PC and established long term relationships with leading companies around the world. With its team of video compression experts, MainConcept has been working to enact its strategy of ‘Every Codec, Every Platform’ by porting its video codecs to many new platforms including DSP, FPGA and ARM processors and building its own hardware platform for real-time, broadcast-quality encoding.

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