MPEGator
The powerful winning video capturing card
The primary goal of MPEGator (pronounced M-peg-a-tor)
is to make high quality MPEG encoding affordable and to open up a new market
for Video CD production, video conferencing, digital security systems,
multimedia contents creation and many more. MPEGator is presently the best
and only choice for high quality, real time MPEG1 encoding at an affordable price.
The MPEGator board is based on Array Microsystems' VIDEOFLOW chip set.
The chip set is comprised of two chips which carry out the image compression
and motion estimation tasks during real time video digitizing thus enabling
the design of low cost MPEG1 video compression hardware. Simultaneous and
synchronous real time audio compression is performed using an onboard MPEG
encoding DSP chip.
MPEGator can capture up to SIF resolution video and stereo audio and
compress them to MPEG video or system layer (synchronized video/audio)
streams in real time. For Internet applications MPEGator can capture and
encode low resolution, low bitrate, low framerate clips (compatible with
Net Toob Stream player) to fit various network bandwidth down to 28.8K modems!
For those who need sophisticated video editing, MPEGator software allows
to capture into I-frame MPEG compressed AVI format (similar to MJPEG)
which can be imported into any existing editing software and finally
converted into fully compressed MPEG clip. MPEGator comes with a user-friendly
Windows 95/98/NT application software which enables users to capture video
and audio, select basic and advanced settings and view the resulting MPEG
or AVI file from a single user interface. The input source can also be
viewed before and during capture through a real time video preview window.
Bundled with MPEGator is a special version of Darim's DVMPEG compression
driver. Maintaining all the flexibility and ease of use as its software-only
counterpart, this version of DVMPEG uses MPEGator as MPEG1 encoding
accelerator to achieve very significant performance gains.
For those who need to tailor MPEGator for their needs, it comes with
royalty free Software Development Kit (MSDK). Darim encourages developers
to take advantage of this offer and create custom applications best
suited to their needs based on MPEGator SDK.
Target Applications :
- Creation of high quality MPEG1 clips in real time
- Video CD 2.0 production
- Video On Demand contents
- Live video streaming over networks
- Interactive video training materials
- Medical and scientific events monitoring
- Multimedia contents for Web sites and many more...
Package options :
MPEGator OEM package (MPEGator board only)
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