EMediaLive.com: Parvus Debuts MPEG104 Real-Time MPEG-1 Encoder

Parvus has unveiled its MPEG104 board, a PC/104-Plus form factor MPEG-1 encoder, capable of capturing high-quality analog video and audio streams, encoding them in compressed MPEG-1, M-JPEG or JPEG formats, and sending them to a host computer over a 32-bit PCI bus.

This compact PC/104-Plus module is based on the Winbond W99200F video encoder and supports up to four composite video inputs and one stereo audio input at full NTSC or PAL frame rates. It can also accept either two S-Video (Y/C) or two composite and one Y/C input sources.

The card integrates four reprogrammable general-purpose digital I/O channels for system control, as well as a 2MB SDRAM frame buffer for storing single frames or video snapshots of incoming video. It encodes pictures in IBP syntax at both SIF and QSIF resolutions at up to 30 frames/second and supports single frame sizes up to 720 x 576 pixels.

A full product datasheet is available at http://www.parvus.com/datasheet/DS.asp?PrimaryPart=LIT-0233X-01.

The product is currently in stock and priced at $226/each in volume orders of 100+ units.