Snell & Wilcox license mpegable SDK 1.4

Berlin 4 September 2002 - dicas today announced that Snell & Wilcox, the world leading broadcast engineering group, has licensed dicas' mpegable SDK 1.4 video coding solution.

This recently released version of mpegable SDK expands on the performance and features of its successful predecessor, which was the first MPEG-4 SDK to support the coding of arbitrarily shaped objects and B-frame coding. mpegable SDK 1.4 is available for Windows (9x, NT 4.0, 2000, XP), Linux, Solaris, Apple OS X and PocketPC.

Sebastian Moeritz, CEO of dicas, said, "We have been continuously working with Snell & Wilcox to satisfy the broadcast industry's increasing demand for MPEG-4 functionalities in S&W's new 'Ingest Station'. We are delighted to be chosen as the MPEG-4 technology provider for Snell & Wilcox and look forward to seeing our technology more widely used in this unique product,"

At IBC 2002 (13 - 17 September, www.ibc.org), Snell & Wilcox will demonstrate a beta version of a Standard Definition MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 smart file transcoding with MOLETM technology using dicas mpegable technology - which produces a frame-accurate proxy and/or browse version of the high quality MPEG-2 archive generated by Ingest Station.

Francois Abbe, Snell & Wilcox Product Manager, MPEG Mastering, said, "dicas is a valuable partner and provider for us since their experience, skill and solutions guarantee maximum functionality and quality, which are crucial in the development of our MPEG-related products," said,.

Media Asset Management will be made easier with Ingest Station for archiving, which will demonstrate 'Constant Quality Ingest', UMIDs ('Unique Material Identifiers'), advanced metadata generation and handling.

Under the theme "The Business Case for Quality", Snell & Wilcox will exhibit at IBC 2002 in Hall 1, Stand 231. dicas will be present as co-exhibitor at the stand of the MPEG-4 Industry Forum (www.m4if.org) in Hall 7, Stand 620.