Codec Pack for OEMs and ISVs

The Entropy Wave GStreamer Codec Pack is a collection of GStreamer plugins used for encoding and decoding a variety of media formats. Entropy Wave offers flexible licensing plans based on either a flat fee or per-unit royalty.

Entropy Wave can also provide support for Open Audio and Video codecs

Available codecs

Video Decoding

• DV Digital Video
• MPEG-2 video
• H.263
• MPEG-4 part 2 (ASP) video
• H.264/MPEG-4 part 10 (AVC)
• VC-1/Windows Media Video 9

Audio Encoding

• MPEG-1/2 Audio Layer III (mp3)
• MPEG-4 Advanced Audio Coding (AAC)

Video Encoding

• MPEG-2 video
• MPEG-4 part 2 (SP and ASP) video
• MPEG-4 part 10 (AVC)/H.264

Codecs may be licensed in any combination. Level support depends on hardware used for decoding. Entropy Wave provides test files in a variety of formats, profiles, sizes, and bit rates to help you determine the level support of a particular hardware/decoder combination.

Features

• For Windows XP or later, OS/X 10.4, Linux x86-32, or Linux x86-64
• Developed with new GStreamer base classes to provide fast seeking and perfect time synchronization.
• Can be built “fat”, to run optimally on any system, or “thin”, optimized for a specific system, such as an embedded target. Please let us know of your target requirements.
• Decoders provide warnings on the GStreamer pipeline bus indicating that a particular video stream requires more than 100% CPU to decode.
• Warnings provided for corrupted frames.
• Compatible with older versions of GStreamer.
• Encoders work in both constant bit rate (CBR), average bit rate (ABR), and variable bit rate (VBR), or constant quality mode.
• CBR mode is “true” constant bit rate, including a buffer model (VBV).
• Encoders work with both small buffers for video conferencing and large buffers for higher quality.

Approximate Binary Sizes

Example sizes for Linux x86-32. “Fat” is compiled to run optimally on all CPU varieties, “Thin” is compiled to run on one specific CPU.

Licensing

Please contact <info@entropywave.com> for details. For most formats, patent licensing is required from a third party such as MPEG-LA. Entropy Wave can assist with determining your needs.