MVI releases H.263 video codec for mobile iAs

By Bernard Cole
iApplianceWeb
(03/29/03, 10:42:08 PM EDT)

London, England --  Mobile Video Imaging (MVI), Ltd. has made availablefor third party leasing its MVI-1 standards-based H.264 codec, designedfor software and hardware environments such as Windows, PocketPC, Java, and Symbian on compact mobile Internet-centric computing and communications appliances.

H.264 is the latest video encoding standard, developed jointly by the ISO and MPEG organizations to offer high-quality video compression. With as much as twice the encoding efficiency of previous standards, H.264 is suitable for video deployment over the entire range of today's networks, both for on-demand and real-time streaming applications.

According to the company, the new MVI-1 codec is scalable over networks from GSM (9.6kbps) and GPRS through to broadband environments.

For more information about the new product go to http://www.mvinow.com/.

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