Elecard, a leading developer of codecs and products for digital video, today announced the release of the fourth generation of its highly acclaimed video and audio compression codecs and codec SDK for Microsoft® Windows®.

The Elecard 4G codec line includes:
• H.264 AVC, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 Part 2, DV50 and DV100 video encoders
• AAC, MPEG-2 and MP3 audio encoders
• H.264 AVC, MPEG-4 Part 2, DV50 and DV100 video decoders
• AAC audio decoder
• MPEG-2 PS/TS multiplexer and demultiplexer

All of the above codecs are based on completely new engines. The Elecard product line also includes MPEG-2 video, MPEG-2 and MP3 audio decoders based on the third generation engines.
The new codebase architecture enables Elecard to build encoders with industry leading features:
• Extra high compression quality
• Unbeatable encoding speed
• The best quality/bitrate ratio
• Robust, reliable performance
• Specially designed engines for real-time processing
• Optimizations for all x86 processors, especially for multi-core CPUs
• Portability to other platforms including Windows CE, Linux and Mac OS
• Special DSP optimizations for TI DM64xx and DaVinci, NXP PNX 89xx and 17xx series

Download: Evaluation versions of new codecs
Download: Evaluation versions of new SDK