dicas Unveils mpegable AVC

Business Wire, June 22, 2004

BERLIN -- German MPEG-Specialist Releases Free MPEG-4/H.264 Video Codec

dicas, the MPEG-4 specialist software developer, today announced the release of mpegable AVC. This first version of mpegable AVC provides next generation video compression quality to all applications supporting Video for Windows (VfW) like VirtualDub, FlaskMPEG and many more. Being based on the latest MPEG-standard known as MPEG-4 AVC/H.264, mpegable AVC outperforms other codecs in terms of coding efficiency.

Typical applications for mpegable AVC are in the consumer PC sector where videos need to be stored on CD or DVD, or to be sent over the Internet. mpegable AVC, which is easily installed, is perfectly suited where videos should be made available from websites for download. Users can watch videos created with mpegable AVC in the media player of their choice.

This software codec provides full video encoding and video decoding functionalities and writes the video data into an AVI file. Microsoft's Windows Media Player, for example, or any other player capable of reading AVI files, can be used for the playback.

mpegable AVC is available free of charge for immediate download on www.mpegable.com.

About dicas:

dicas is an MPEG-focused video coding specialist and a leading developer of ISO MPEG-4 real-time video coding solutions providing the industry with the highest quality core technology for digital video. Under the brand name mpegable(R), dicas offers a family of MPEG-4, MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 and 3GPP compliant professional tools and components as well as end-user products. dicas also supplies services for the development, customization and optimization of MPEG-based video coding solutions. dicas is the first company to have introduced an MPEG-4 SDK with object-based features in the market. dicas is a member of the MPEG Industry Forum (www.mpegif.org).