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German software company From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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MainConcept GmbH is a software company founded in Germany by Markus Moenig and Thomas Zabel. They specialize in developing video/audio codecs and also applications and plug-ins related to video/audio encoding. They are a subsidiary of Endeavor Streaming, with employees in Germany, Russia, United States and Japan.
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MainConcept is a video codec supplier founded in 1993 in Aachen, Germany and a board member of the MPEG Industry Forum.[1] The Russian video codec company Elecard discussed an opportunity to become part of the company between April 2005, and August 2006. In November 2007, MainConcept became a wholly owned subsidiary of DivX, Inc.[2] In June 2010, Sonic Solutions acquired DivX and its subsidiaries in a cash and stock deal valued at $323 million.[3][4] Rovi Corporation acquired Sonic Solutions (including the MainConcept business) in February 2011,[5] and later sold off the DivX and MainConcept businesses in April 2014. In February 2015, NeuLion, Inc. acquired DivX, LLC including the MainConcept business.[6]
The company has specialized in video codecs since 1995, with a focus on standards, e.g. H.264/AVC, MPEG, AVC-Intra etc.
MainConcept delivered its first MPEG-1/2 Codec in 2001, and its first H.264/MPEG-4 AVC Codec in 2004.
In August 2007, Adobe Systems licensed the H.264 and AAC technology developed by MainConcept for integration into its Adobe Flash Player software.[7] In April 2010, MainConcept signed a strategic collaboration agreement with AMD to accelerate digital video encode.[8] In September 2010, the company launched MainConcept Reference 2.1 for Mac/Windows providing enhanced support for Mac OS 10.5/10.6, Apple iPad, HTML5.[9][10]
On June 4, 2013, Rovi Corporation released the MainConcept HEVC SDK 1.0.[11] SDK 1.0 supports Smart Adaptive Bitrate Encoding Technology (SABET) which allows for the simultaneous encoding of up to 10 video output streams with reduced computing cost.[11] SDK 1.0 is available for Windows and SDK 1.0.1, which will be released in July 2013, will add support for Linux and Mac OS X.[11][12] SDK 1.0 supports the Main profile while SDK 2.0, which will be released in Q4 2013, will add support for the Main 10 profile.[12][13]
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IP licensing and SDK products
| MPEG -1/2 | VC-3 | Codec SDK |
| H.264/AVC | H.265/HEVC | Dolby Digital Consumer |
| JPEG2000 | Motion JPEG | Dolby Digital Pro SDK |
| MPEG-4 Part2/H.263 | Converter & Scaler | Dolby Digital Plus Pro SDK |
| DivX | Network Streaming | Scalable Video Coding |
| DV/DVCPRO 25 | Audio SDK | ShowCase |
| DV/DVCPRO 25/50 | AAC | MCE Encoder |
| DVCPRO HD | Flash |
Application and plug-in products
Supported Formats
| PSP | VCD | Panasonic P2 DVCPRO | |
| iPod | DV | Panasonic P2 AVC-Intra | |
| 3GP | DV AVI | AVCHD | |
| Flash | DVCAM | JPEG 2000 | |
| Blu-ray | XDCAM IMX | Digital TV | |
| DVD | XDCAM EX | HDV | |
| SVCD | XDCAM HD |
Awards
- 2007, 2008 and 2009 – the Moscow State University ranked MainConcept's H.264 codec first in its annual H.264-codec comparison.[14]
See also
- High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC)
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