CodecWorks Software Encoder

A real-time encoding solution Elecard CodecWorks Encoder is the most powerful software product on the market providing uncompromising quality.

Flexible design based on Elecard's in-house software components allows system integrators to build turn-key encoding systems of superior quality providing advanced functionality and technically unrestricted scalability.

Continious R&D work on encoding components puts Elecard CodecWorks always ahead of competition with hardware encoders.

Product highlights:

• ability to increase the number of channels, or shift to HDTV broadcasting without upgrading delivery channels
• inexpensive solution for regional advertisement and operator's logo insertion
• extreme effectiveness of computing resources utilization significantly cuts expenses for IPTV head-end hardware
• highest video quality, unachievable for hardware solutions
• no need for full equipment replacement to improve performance, any component such as CPU can be replaced if need arises

Main features:

• up to 2 AVC Full HD channels
  up to 10 AVC SD channels
  up to 3 MPEG-2 Full HD channels
  up to 20 MPEG-2 SD channels (details)
• supported video formats: MPEG-2, AVC/H.264, MPEG-4.2, H.263
• plugin structure to create encoding schemes for desired configuration
• advertisement and logo insertion
• mechanism for quick back up
• centralized control over several encoding servers
• denoising function provides better video compression without noticeable loss of visual quality for Internet streaming via low bandwidth networks

New in version 3.4:

• ability to save the broadcast stream to file
• support of DVB subtitles during the commercial insertion process
• ability to convert teletext into DVB stream
• optimization for faster processing of multi-track streams
• subtitles insertion from file during converting into DVB format