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HaiVision
Launches PIRANHA Combining Audio and Video With Metadata for Low
Latency H.264 Encoding Applications
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HaiVision Systems Inc,
November 11, 2008
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MONTREAL — HaiVision Systems Inc., the world’s leading vendor of
high
performance H.264 HD and SD video codecs, today announced the
availability of the new
PIRANHA encoding platform. The PIRANHA, based on HaiVision’s
low-latency H.264 encoding
engine, combines time-based metadata with compressed video and audio
into industry-standard
MPEG transport streams. The PIRANHA is targeted at applications
specifically within military
markets where auxiliary data is directly associated with the video
stream, such as mobile
surveillance platforms. Because such data can change over time
(e.g., position information), the
data is merged in real time with the compressed video information
for transport to remote
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“With mission-critical network video
applications, milliseconds matter,” states Peter Maag,
HaiVision vice president. “We deliver the
fastest H.264 compression because of our extensive
experience in network video communications. With the important
development of data handling
and the associated release of the PIRANHA, we have opened the
application of our technology
to a broad spectrum of government video projects.”
The PIRANHA, available today with full frame-rate standard
definition encoding, obtains the
serial data information from within the closed caption area of the
video stream (line 21) or from a
serial port on the encoder system. The PIRANHA encodes the data and
video within the
compressed IP stream in under 200 milliseconds, compared to other
products that take many
seconds to encode H.264 video. HaiVision’s H.264 is fully compatible
with set-top boxes,
Adobe® Flash®, QuickTime® streaming servers, and soft players. The
PIRANHA is a compact 1U
rack-mounted appliance.
Complete information on HaiVision products, including recent case
studies and application
notes, is available at www.haivision.com/account/downloads/.
About HaiVision Systems Inc.
Based in Montreal, Canada, HaiVision Systems Inc. is a private
company and a world leader in delivering
the most advanced video networking technology. HaiVision’s products
are deployed worldwide within the
foremost telepresence suites and boardrooms, in healthcare
facilities for video collaboration and training,
for continuous presence distance education and remote learning, for
high performance communica |
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