Elecard MPEG-2 Decoder and Streaming PlugIn for WMP* (and for other DirectShow based products) is the package of Elecard components for media data de-multiplexing and decoding as well as receiving streaming video and decoding it. MPEG-2 Video Decoder a.k.a. DVD decoder, streaming components, and demultiplexer comprised in the pack are Microsoft® DirectShow® compatible.

DXVA support in the Elecard MPEG2 Video Decoder significantly decreases CPU usage and provides substantial performance gains.

Multi CPU support provides high performance for real time transcoding tasks executed on high-end PCs.

Elecard MPEG-2 Decoder can process DVD Subpicture, Closed Captions (DVD, ATSC. DVS157, C-Cube, SCTE).

Elecard MPEG2 Video Decoder is Windows XP Media Center Edition compatible. Install the pack to enable dvd video playback in multimedia players built on DirectShow (e.g., Windows® Media Player).

Features

• Software-only MPEG-2 (ISO/IEC 13818-2) and MPEG-1 (ISO/IEC 11172-2) stream decoding.
• High Profile @ High Level decoding @ supports all MPEG-2 profiles/levels, excluding scalability extensions.
• Full-resolution, full-quality decoding/playback (high precision arithmetic, IEEE 1180-1190 compliant IDCT, half-pel motion compensation).
• Optimized for the most efficient CPU usage - takes advantage of MMX™, SSE™, SSE2™, and 3DNow® extensions when available.
• Special control interface - programmatic control of decoding quality and frame capture interface.
• Software deinterlacing.
• ATSC Streams Decoding - supports 18 ATSC formats.
• High definition video decoding.
• Optional double precision IDCT.
• High performance - supports real-time high resolution video decoding (720x480 @ 30fps for NTSC, 720x576 @ 25fps for PAL and bit rate up to 15 Mbps) on Pentium II 500 MHz with a DirectX compatible video card that supports YUV overlay. Software only decoder for HD 1920x1080i on AMD64 3000+ 1,8 Ghz, Intel P4 3Ghz single CPU
• Optimized for Hyper-Threading Technology, dual core and SMP systems.
• DXVA hardware acceleration support.
• Visual quality improving (HQ Upsample).
• Closed Captions decoding.

System Requirements

Requirements to hardware

• MMX™, SSE™, SSE2™, SSE3™ -enhanced CPU (Intel® Pentium® III, IV Xeon®, Pentium Prescott, AMD®, Athlon™, Opteron™ etc.)
• 128 MB RAM
• Any VGA card

Requirements to software

• Works under Microsoft's Windows® 2000, Windows® XP, Windows® 2003, Windows® Vista. Operating Systems
• DirectX 8.1 and higher