MainConcept™ H.264/AVC Pro
Plug-In for MainConcept Reference
Information
| Price: $2290 MainConcept Reference H.264 Pro is a full version plug-in for MainConcept Reference. |
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The H.264/AVC Pro full version plug-in module provides H.264 support for the MainConcept Reference trial version. To install and use this full version plug-in, the MainConcept Reference trial must be already installed on your system. | |
H.264/AVC (Advanced Video Coding), also known as MPEG-4 Part 10, is an exciting format which is poised to be a major video standard because it can replace several popular formats while offering significant advantages over them. H.264 offers quality which can rival that of MPEG-2 with as little as half the bitrate and file size. MainConcept Reference H.264/AVC Pro for the new MainConcept Reference application offers a superior quality. It supports all standard and advanced features of the H.264 spec including Baseline, Main and High Profiles as well as CABAC and CAVLC. The software also includes AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) encoding and decoding. The plug-in is ideal for a wide variety of applications ranging from video telephony to high-end broadcasting and storage. It offers presets for Apple iPod, Sony PSP, AVCHD and many more professional formats. The software also includes the MainConcept H.264 Decoder, enabling playback of H.264/AVC files in Windows Media Player and other compatible programs. MainConcept Reference H.264/AVC can only be used when MainConcept Reference is installed (not included). | |
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The demo version of the MainConcept Reference is a kind of basic application which includes the most important MainConcept codecs as a demo. You can test the power of the codecs the way you already know from the popular MPEG Encoder and H.264 Encoder application, i.e. only a watermark is added to the converted clips. The available demo codecs in MainConcept Reference are the following:
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| H.264/AVC Encoder | H.264/AVC Encoder Pro |
Available | Max bit-rate 20 Mbps | Up to 5.1 Level restriction (288 Mbps) |
Instances | Single instance at the time | Multiple instance at the time |
Multi CPU | Only one physical CPU (for example on systems with Dual Cores, the encoder will run only on one Dual Core thus utilizing 2 cores from 4 available in system) | Multi CPU usage supported |
Bit Rate | Only ConstQ and VBR rate control modes (thus no CBR) | CBR, VBR, ConstQ multipass encoding is enabled |