01.06.2011 - MainConcept Supercharges H.264 Encoding Performance

Las Vegas, NV, CES 2011 (January 6, 2011) -- Sonic Solutions®, (NASDAQ: SNIC) today announced the availability of the MainConcept® OpenCL H.264/AVC encoder SDK optimized for the immensely popular ATI FirePro™ professional graphics and AMD Radeon™ graphics from AMD (NYSE: AMD). Widely recognized as the world leader in codec development, MainConcept's new SDK dramatically improves H.264/AVC HD video encoding times by efficiently harnessing the OpenCL standard. As the most widely-used format for delivering rich multimedia content, H.264/AVC is broadly deployed in the consumer and broadcast space for over-the-air digital transmission and streaming, as well as online premium content movie download services such as RoxioNow™. Licensees of the new MainConcept SDK can be significantly more efficient than competitors in bringing the best video content to market. - View Press Release - Visit Sonic Solutions.