Industry-unique Faroudja® Transcoding Technology from STMicroelectronics Connects Digital Homes to Everything, Everywhere, All the Time
(Thomson Reuters ONE) -
TV operators can now offer additional services on tablets, mobile devices,
laptops, and networked TVs
Geneva, September 12, 2013 - STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global
semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics
applications, has introduced the industry's first transcoding engine that
enables a home gateway to distribute any type of content to any type of
connected device in the home. Initially implemented in the popular STiH416
('Orly') and fully supported in the recently introduced STiH407/STiH410/STiH412
('Monaco') System-on-Chip (SoC) devices, the new transcoding engine is set to
become an integral part of all of ST's Home Gateway solutions.
Transcoding is the process of converting one digitally encoded stream into a
different format and is an essential part of the "Everything, Everywhere"
paradigm. This approach allows all broadcast and Internet services to be
accessed by any wired or wirelessly connected device in the home, including
legacy devices that lack the processing power or memory capacity to handle the
data directly. Up till now, Set-Top Box/Home Gateway systems either compromised
on the number of supported transcode channels or required an additional
dedicated transcoder device to meet the required number of channels. In either
case, the resulting video quality had limitations related to de-interlacing and
other video-processing techniques that produced visible artifacts on tablets and
mobile devices supporting progressive displays. In addition, content has been
limited to TV broadcast, preventing the streaming of user-generated content in
other important formats such as JPEG, MJPEG, DivX, VP8, VC-1, and WMV.
ST has overcome these limitations with its industry-unique Faroudja(®)
transcoding technology. By leveraging the best-of-breed Faroudja de-interlacing
and post-processing techniques, Home Gateway devices enable IP-connected clients
to display content with unprecedented quality. The technology is supported in ST
chipsets by the new ST-developed software based on the open GStreamer standard.
This revolutionary solution allows many incoming data formats to be converted in
real time to H.264, allowing users to enjoy TV, browsing, gaming and other
external services on any client device anywhere in the home, including tablets,
mobile devices, laptops and connected TVs.
Image transcoding enables fast slide shows and optimized storage utilization for
pictures on mobile devices. High-speed transcoding also enables side-loading of
content at speeds never before achieved, empowering users to download content to
a mobile device and access it on tablets and other mobile devices on the go.
"ST's image-transcoding technology makes homes ultimately connected, allowing
users to access any content in any format on any device from tablets to TVs,"
said Andrew Cofler, System Architecture Director, Unified Platform Division,
STMicroelectronics. "With its advanced transcode engine that delivers best-in-
class security, low power consumption and industry-leading performance, ST is
taking the emerging home-server and home-gateway application segment to the next
level."
The new technology is already implemented in the popular STiH416 ('Orly') device
and fully supported in the recently introduced STiH407/STiH410/STiH412
('Monaco') devices, with up to four channels of transcoding enabled through
GStreamer interfaces on the ARM® Cortex(TM) MPCore(TM) application processor.
The transcoding technology increases the number of channels as well as adds
support for additional video formats such as HEVC (High Efficiency Video
Coding).
The industry-unique transcoding technology will be shown by ST at IBC in
Amsterdam, September 13-17, 2013.
About STMicroelectronics
ST is a global leader in the semiconductor market serving customers across the
spectrum of sense and power and automotive products and embedded processing
solutions. From energy management and savings to trust and data security, from
healthcare and wellness to smart consumer devices, in the home, car and office,
at work and at play, ST is found everywhere microelectronics make a positive and
innovative contribution to people's life. By getting more from technology to get
more from life, ST stands for life.augmented.
In 2012, the Company's net revenues were $8.49 billion. Further information on
ST can be found at www.st.com.
For Press Information Contact:
STMicroelectronics
Michael Markowitz
Director Technical Media Relations
+1 781 591 0354
michael.markowitz(at)st.com
ST Faroudja Transcoding Technology:
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