Advanced Micro Peripherals has introduced an H.264 encoder card, the H264-HD2000. The card is a low latency encoder on a single, PCI/104 board. It adds analogue and digital video capture with H.264/MPEG-4 AVC (advanced video coding) part 10 encoding to embedded PC equipment designs. The encoding engine supports low latency, full frame rate encoding of two HD video sources at up to 1080p30. The card can also perform a single channel encode at 1080p60 and stream duplication of the digital video input to provide multiple encodings of the same input. This allows creation of streams at different resolution, compression settings, and available bandwidth. The encoder card accepts both analogue and digital video input. The digital video is received from DVI/HDMI sources at a resolution of 480 to 1080p60. The HD analogue video data can be taken from YPbPR, RGsB (synchronisation on green) or VGA with separate horizontal and vertical synchronisation. The card operates in the temperature range of -40 to +85°C and is applicable for OS such as Windows, Linux, and QNX. This encoder card is suitable for defence, transportation, remote platforms, and "situational awareness" applications.
