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Digigami Ships MegaPEG HDTV: High-Definition MPEG-2 Encoder for ATSC, IDSB-T and EBU Digital TV
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Digigami has announced it is now shipping MegaPEG HDTV for Macintosh OS X-based laptops and workstations, its flagship MPEG-2 encoder for compressing high-definition video into standards-compliant MPEG-2 (ISO/IEC 13818) bitstreams. The product creates streams compatible with ATSC (North American), ISDB-T (Japan), and EBU (European) standards for HD, and can perform format conversion on the fly, including SD up-conversion and HD down-conversion and conversion from ATSC to EBU and vice-versa.

MegaPEG HDTV includes an integrated picture quality analysis (PQA) tool with the same features as Digigami MPressionist Pro HD. Any HD encoding job can be paused and the intermediate compression results analyzed to ensure that the stream meets quality expectations.

MegaPEG HDTV is best suited for HD production scenarios where files are encoded once and then played repeatedly. Such applications typically the highest quality, differing from real-time encoding scenarios where the source material passes through the encoder for a single broadcast. This includes DTV ad-insertion systems, HD kiosk applications, and closed-circuit HD TV networks such as those increasingly found in museums, theme parks, airports and five-star luxury hotels.

MegaPEG HDTV is a single pass MPEG encoder featuring a floating point video pre-processing pipeline which supports both constant (CBR) and variable bitrate (VBR) operation. Tradeoffs between compression time and picture quality (encoding accuracy) are available in a Graphical User Interface (GUI) which utilizes an eleven-position slider which configures the encoder. For advanced operators, all aspects of the encoding are available for configuration, including the specification of MPEG-2 features such as Intra-DC precision, custom GOP patterns and custom DCT quantization matrices.

Users can compress source video format or codec to any target format supported by the encoder, which currently supports all the major applications of MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 from Whitebook VideoCD to ATSC HDTV at 1920x1080i. Even if your primary delivery format is 1080i, you can easily create Web versions or support foreign formats from the same master/source.. The format conversion features have been included in MegaPEG.X since version 2.0.

The new 3.0 version of Digigami "MegaPEG HDTV" is available for $795 USD MSRP. Registered users of previous versions of MegaPEG are eligible for substantial upgrade discounts. Site licenses, educational, and volume discounts are available.

www.digigami.com/megapeg/  


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