Product Overview

High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC/H.265),

the successor to AVC/H.264, is a new video

compression standard ratified in January 2013.

This next-generation video codec harnesses a

decade of industry-wide research efforts to achieve

higher bitrate savings and parallelization.

HEVC more than triples the existing AVC

intra-frame prediction modes to achieve the

bitrate savings. And, by simplifying previously

un-parallelizable operations like CABAC, the

codec enables leveraged parallel processing

architectures. The result is a codec that can offer

up to 50% reduced bitrate at the same quality

when compared to AVC/H.264.

Accelerate market deployment of HEVC/H.265 software and services with MainConcept’s codec technology.

MAINCONCEPT hEVC/h.265PrOfEssIONAl CONTENT CrEATION sOlUTIONs

Product Overview

MainConcept hEVC technology will be available throughout all of rovi’s content creation tools…

The advantages of this new standard will be

critical for content creators, distributors, software

developers and device manufacturers as the

demand for “Entertainment Unbound” – video

anywhere – continues to surge. In 2013, Rovi will

provide HEVC products to power the first complete

end-to-end HEVC ecosystem, including consumer

and professional content creation, secure delivery

and playback.

MainConcept HEVC technology will be available

throughout all of Rovi’s content creation tools,

empowering consumers and professionals to

leverage our multi-platform HEVC technology. Our

premiere, highly scalable transcoding application,

TotalCode, along with MainConcept SDKs are

poised to build the world’s most comprehensive

HEVC ecosystem, including DivX® HEVC profiles.

HEVC QuadtreeCoding Structure

• MC HEVC Encoder/Decoder SDK• TotalCode Enterprise HEVC

Rovi End-To-End HEVC SolutionRovi End-To-End HEVC Solution

Product Overview

The MainConcept HEVC/H.265 SDK is the solution for developers who want to support HEVC in their own application or software while leveraging MainConcept’s renowned codec technology.

Audio encoding and decoding support for almost all common broadcast, production and home entertainment formats.

Flexible network streaming toolset for both client- and server-side streaming implementations that enable multimedia delivery across networks via DivX Plus Streaming™ and MPEG-DASH.

Flexible transcoding SDK layer built upon the MainConcept SDK codec library containing a powerful transcoding engine enabling developers to create their own applications for converting video files into HEVC formats for delivery of compliant video/audio streams (e.g., DivX Plus Streaming).

HEVC codec capable of offloading processor-intensive tasks in hardware to provide faster video encoding than is possible on a CPU alone.

Powerful multiplexing and de-multiplexing of audio/video streams from different sources into ISO Base Media File Format (MP4) for production or broadcast by adhering to format standards.

HEVC/H.265 encoding and decoding components that will support most broadcast production and content delivery standards in addition to a large number of media and devices.

Audio

Streaming

Transcoding

Hardware Acceleration

Format

Video

TotalCode HEVC Transcoding Solutions

TotalCode Enterprise

TotalCode Studio

TotalCode Engine

Scalable, server-distributed encoding solution for high volume content creation and delivery of HEVC/H.265 content

Professional desktop encoding for a broad range of digital distribution and broadcast formats, including HEVC/H.265

Rovi’s powerful stand-alone command-line transcoding solution for workflow automation within in-house production environments, with extended HEVC/H.265 support.

Premium quality, high volume encoding tools that support DivX HEVC content creation for post production, multimedia, broadcast, mobile and IPTV

MainConcept SDKs

Product Overview

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MainConcept HEVC/H.265 Codec Key Features

Key Features Details

One MainConcept encoding instance can generate up to 10 output files off of one input to accelerate content preparation for multiple bitrates and resolutions

4:2:0 8-bit (Main), 10-bit (Main10) profile and DivX HEVC Profile support for 720p, 1080p and 4K

I-, P-, B-Frames, Pyramid B-Frames, and fixed or adaptive GOP Structure with scene change detection and adaptive B-Frame count

ConstantQ, CBR 1-Pass /2-Pass, VBR 1-Pass /2-Pass, and Coding Tree Unit (CTU) Relevance Detection

Rate Control Extension for Streaming Applications

Full Pixel Motion Estimation, Sub-Pixel Motion Estimation, Deblocking, Sample Adaptive Offset (SAO), Weighted Prediction, Transform Split, Adaptive Quantization, Lookahead and Long-Term References

Up to 64 x 64 to support UHD (4K) resolutions

Optimized for Multi-Core and Assembler for SSE2, SSE4, AVX and AVX2

Windows, Mac and Linux (32-bit/64-bit); HEVC Decoder will be available for ARMv7 platforms (iOS and Android)

Smart Adaptive Bitrate Encoding Technology

Profiles

Compression

Rate Control

HRD Conformance

Quality Control

Coding Unit Support

Processor Architectures

Supported Platforms