MainConcept

MainConcept
MainConcept GmbH
Type Public
Traded as NASDAQ: DIVX
Industry video/audio encoding
Founded Aachen, Germany, 1993
Founder(s) Markus Mönig
Headquarters Aachen, Germany
Area served Worldwide
Key people Muzaffer Beygirci,
Managing Director
David J. Richter,
Managing Director
Dan Halvorson,
Managing Director
Products codecs, applications, plug-ins
Employees > 100 employees worldwide
Parent Since November 2007 a wholly owned subsidiary of DivX, Inc.
Website mainconcept.com


MainConcept GmbH is a software company developing video/audio codecs and also applications and plug-ins related to video/audio encoding.

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History

MainConcept is a video codec supplier founded 1993 in Aachen, Germany and a board member of the MPEG Industry Forum. The Russian video codec company Elecard was part of the company between April 2005 and August 2006. Since November 2007 MainConcept is a wholly owned subsidiary of DivX, Inc. (which is currently being acquired by Sonic Solutions).[1]

The company is specializing in video codecs since 1995 with a focus to standards, e.g. H.264/AVC, MPEG, AVC-Intra etc.

In 2001 MainConcept delivered the first MPEG-1/2 Codec and in 2004 the first H.264/MPEG-4 AVC was delivered.

In August 2007, Adobe Systems licensed the H.264 and AAC technology developed by MainConcept for integration into its Adobe Flash Player software.[2] In April 2010 MainConcept has signed a strategic collaboration agreement with AMD to accelerate digital video encode.[3] In September 2010, the company launched MainConcept Reference 2.1 for Mac/Windows providing enhanced support for Mac OS 10.5/10.6, Apple iPad, HTML5.[4][5]

Subsidiaries

IP licensing / SDK products

MPEG -1/2 VC-3 Reference SDK
H.264/AVC JPEG2000 Dolby Digital Consumer
Flash Motion JPEG Dolby Digital Pro SDK
MPEG-4 Part2/H.263 Converter & Scaler Dolby Digital Plus Pro SDK
DivX Network Streaming Scalable Video Coding
DV/DVCPRO 25 Audio SDK ShowCase
DV/DVCPRO 25/50 AAC MCE Encoder
DVCPRO HC

Application & Plug-In products

Reference Transcoding Decoder Packs Windows Analyzing
Reference Blu-Ray Codec Bundle MPEG-2 Analyzer TS
Reference H.264/AVC Broadcast / H.264/AVC H.264/AVC
Reference H.264/AVC Pro H.264/AVC Broadcast / AVC Intra
Reference VC-1 Pro MPEG-4/H.263
Reference MPEG-2 DVCPRO HD
Reference DVCPRO HD JPEG2000
Reference JPEG2000
Reference Dolby Digital Plus Pro
Reference Dolby Digital Pro
Reference MPEG4
Reference MVC Beta


Plug-Ins for Adobe Plug-Ins for Sony
Plug-In for Adobe Flash Media Encoder - AAC Encoder Plug-In for Sony ClipBrowser - Conversion Pack #1
Plug-In for Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 - MPEG Pro HD4 H.264/AVC & MPEG Plug-In for Sony ClipBrowser - Conversion Pack #2
Plug-In for Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 - MPEG Pro HD4 - XDCAM Plug-In for Adobe Plug-In for Ziris Screen Cutter - AVC Encoder
Plug-In for Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 - MPEG Pro HD4 - DVCPRO Plug-In
Plug-In for Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 - MPEG Pro HD4 - AVC-Intra Plug-In Plug-Ins for Apple
Plug-In for Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 - MPEG Pro HD4 - Broadcast Suite Plug-In Movie Export Professional for Final Cut Pro
Plug-In for Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 - Codec Suite 5.0 Professional Movie Export Broadcast for Final Cut Pro
Plug-In for Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 - Codec Suite 5.0 Broadcast
Plug-In for Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 - Codec Suite 5.0 Dolby Digital Pro

Supported Formats

PSP VCD Panasonic P2 DVCPRO
iPod DV Panasonic P2 AVC-Intra
3GP DV AVI AVCHD
Flash DVCAM JPEG 2000
Blu-Ray XDCAM IMX Digital TV
DVD XDCAM EX HDV
SVCD XDCAM HD

Awards

  • 2007, 2008 and 2009 - the Moscow State University ranked MainConcept's H.264 codec first in its annual H.264-codec comparison.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Sonic Solutions to Acquire DivX". Forbes. June 02, 2010. http://www.forbes.com/2010/06/02/sonic-solutions-to-acquire-divx-marketnewsvideo.html. Retrieved September 22, 2010. 
  2. ^ James "Dela" Delahunty (August 25, 2007). "MainConcept licenses core codec technologies to Adobe for Flash". AfterDawn. http://www.afterdawn.com/news/article.cfm/2007/08/25/mainconcept_licenses_core_codec_technologies_to_adobe_for_flash. Retrieved September 22, 2010. 
  3. ^ Jai C.S. (April 12, 2010). "MainConcept and AMD Collaborate for GPU Acceleration". TMCnet. http://business-video.tmcnet.com/topics/business-video/articles/81544-mainconcept-amd-collaborate-gpu-acceleration.htm. Retrieved September 22, 2010. 
  4. ^ "メインコンセプト、MainConcept Reference 2.1 for Mac/Windowsの日本国内販売を開始" (in Japanese). ProNews. September 06, 2010. http://www.pronews.jp/news/1009061940.html. Retrieved September 22, 2010. 
  5. ^ "HTML5- תלת מימד ותמיכה ב- IBM בתערוכת MainConcept" (in Hebrew). September 12, 2010. http://www.av.co.il/?CategoryID=140&ArticleID=15969. Retrieved September 22, 2010. 
  6. ^ "Video filtering and compression by MSU Video Group". Moscow State University. http://compression.ru/video/. Retrieved September 22, 2010. 

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