Grenoble, France - October 2, 2009
The AL1020 is an audio/video encoder for T-DMB, the digital broadcasting standard chosen by the French audiovisual council (CSA). The encoder accepts digital or analog audio and video input and delivers a T-DMB over IP signal (EDI, DCP) that can be used directly by a DAB multiplexer. The AL1020 comes in several versions for:
- basic digital radio applications, with aacPlus audio encoding, DLS, downmix and resampling possibilities.
- insertion of static or video images from live video input or an FTP server.
- high-end deployments with dynamic BIFS insertion for interactivity (MPEG-4 Core2D with BIFS update, carouseling, etc.).
The AL1020 is entirely manageable via SNMP and can be integrated in any existing management system.
Allegro T-DMB encoders have been developed in close cooperation with leading radio broadcasters and editors in France and other European countries. Located near its customers and partners, Allegro can meet their special needs and guarantee easy integration and interoperability of its flexible encoders in existing broadcasting systems.
Paris, Porte de Versailles, October 20-22, 2009.
Hall 7.3, Stand E74.
Allegro showcases new encoder features at IBC 2009
Allegro will be demonstrating its updated MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 products now with HD and iPhone support at stand F90, Hall 1.
Paris, France - September 8, 2009 - At IBC 2009, Allegro will be presenting a host of new features now delivered with its audio/video encoders.
The AL1000 audio/video encoder and AL2000 transcoder ingest SDI, MPEG-2 or H.264 real-time content and deliver it transcoded to a variety of formats perfectly suited to IPTV, Picture-in-Picture (PiP), Internet TV and Mobile TV.
AL1000/AL2000 new features include:
- Up to 32 channels in 1RU.
- HD H.264 encoding and frame-rate doubling (1080i to 720p).
- Live multi-bitrate streaming to iPhone 3.0.
- Announced: live multi-bitrate streaming to Silverlight 3.
- 3GPP bitrate adaptation (BSS).
- WM multi-rate encoding and WM-DRM encryption.
Other Allegro products include:
- ALMosaic generator for channel browsing or monitoring with audio bargraphs and alarms. Full frame-rate thumbnails. Ingests up to 20 MPEG-2 or H.264, MP1L2 and AC-3 inputs. Output resolution up to HD.
- H.264 compliance and certification bitstreams for testing embedded H.264 decoders (IP/IC, STB). Support for syntax and real-time validation up to Level 4.2, A/V sync, aspect ratio and AFD, DVB-T, ISDB-T, DTMB, DVB-Subtitle, Teletext and Closed Caption.
- H.264 real-time hardware encoder IP block (RTL) for integration in SoCs. Ultra low latency, high definition, high profile, high quality encoder.
Allegro staff at the IBC 2009:
Pierre Marty, General Manager
Jerome Blanc, Business Development
Simon Oudin, R&D
Thomas Amory, R&D
Book your meeting with Allegro now: info@allegrodvt.com
Paris, France - September 2, 2009 - GO, Malta's leading quadruple-play operator, uses Allegro transcoders for simultaneous 3GPP Mobile TV and WMV broadcasting.
Allegro AL2000 transcoders enable the same program to be broadcast simultaneously to three screens, reaching the widest possible audience on IPTV, Internet TV and Mobile TV. Transcoders ingest compressed audio/video content, integrate operations such as video resize, frame rate change, and audio adjustment, and deliver it transcoded to a variety of codecs and transport modes, adapted to DVB, 3GPP, iPhone, Windows Media, Silverlight, Flash, ISDB-Tb, and T-DMB players, mobile phones, and set-top boxes. A single 1 RU unit delivers up to 32 encoding profiles for unrivaled integration. It also offers redundancy, advanced network options, and graphical control for easier operation.
GO is currently operating Allegro AL2000 transcoders for delivering Mobile TV over a nationwide 3G/3.5G (HSDPA) network. Twenty-four live channels are delivered to GO mobile subscribers using 3GPP (RTSP) streaming and a selection of local channels broadcast over broadband using WMV. The integrated Allegro solution enables the operator to re-purpose content from the Digital Terrestrial TV Headend enabling it to reach its viewers whether they are in front of the TV, using their mobile phone or on the PC.
Kelvin Camenzuli, Senior Manager of GO's Video and Network Operation Centres, commented "We wanted to re-use the MPEG-2 streams from our all-IP headend core to offer content to our mobile and broadband subscribers. Allegro transcoders fit the requirements perfectly: efficient and high quality transcoding on a flexible and intuitive platform".
Henry Gauci, Technical Architect at GO, who leads the integration and development of GO's multimedia services added, "We also plan to use this platform to improve our mobile TV viewer's experience since it can provide us with multirate streams capable of enabling dynamic bitrate adaptation".
About Allegro
Allegro is a leading provider of H.264/MPEG-4 AVC solutions, including industry standard compliance test suites and real-time audio/video encoders and transcoders. Allegro products have been chosen by more than 55 major IC providers, OEMs and broadcasters.
See: http://www.allegrodvt.com/
About GO p.l.c.
GO is Malta's first quadruple play operator, a truly converged and integrated telecommunications company with a wide range of services. As Malta's leading provider of telecommunications services, GO offers fixed phone, mobile telephony, broadband internet services, digital tv, in addition to business-related services like data networking solutions, business IP services, managed and co-location facilities.
GO has been in the business of communications for the past 30 years and our major shareholder is Emirates International Telecommunications LLC (EIT), a joint venture between TECOM Investments and Dubai Investment Group - both part of Dubai Holding. The remaining shares are traded on the Malta and London Stock Exchanges.
Visit us on Sencore booth N2530.
Visit us on stand #6 for demonstrations of our HD mosaic generator.
Grenoble, France - February 10, 2009 - Allegro announces it has signed a license agreement for its H.264/MPEG-4 AVC high-profile, high-definition hardware video encoding IP with another of the world's top 10 IC vendors. Allegro's H.264 encoding IP will be used in a complex System-On-Chip (SOC) for high-volume consumer applications.
Allegro's H.264 IP core is a real-time hardware encoder targeting mobile phones, camcorders, set-top boxes, webcams and video surveillance applications. The IP core uses Allegro's H.264 compression algorithms originally designed for high quality broadcast applications. Allegro's IP core can process images up to high-definition resolutions and can encode several channels simultaneously.
"We are extremely proud to have been selected by another leading IC company. This demonstrates that Allegro's H.264 encoding IP not only provides best-in-class video quality but is also perfectly optimized to fit the complex memory bandwidth, latency and area requirements of consumer SOCs," points out Pierre Marty, CEO of Allegro.
Allegro's H.264 encoding IPs are also available for H.264 baseline and main profiles in resolutions ranging from CIF to HD.
Paris, France - February 10, 2009 - Latvijas Mobilais Telefons, the mobile operator and mobile technology innovation leader in Latvia, uses Allegro transcoders for simultaneous 3GPP and DVB-H Mobile TV broadcasting.
Allegro AL2000 transcoders enable the same program to be broadcast simultaneously to three screens, reaching the widest possible audience on IPTV, Internet TV and Mobile TV. Transcoders ingest compressed audio/video content, integrate operations such as video resize, frame rate change, and audio adjustment, and deliver it transcoded to a variety of codecs and transport modes, adapted to DVB, 3GPP, Windows Media, Flash, ISDB-Tb, and T-DMB players, mobile phones, and set-top boxes. A single 1 RU unit delivers up to 16 encoding profiles for unrivaled integration. It also offers redundancy, advanced network options, and graphical control for easier operation.
LMT is currently operating Allegro AL2000 transcoders for delivering Mobile TV to its 1 mil customers. Seven live channels are delivered both to 3GPP (RTSP) streaming, and DVB-H broadcasting. The integrated Allegro solution enables the same contents to reach viewers whether they experience it on mobile phones, or DVB-H receivers.
About Allegro
Allegro is a leading provider of H.264/MPEG-4 AVC solutions, including industry standard compliance test suites and real-time audio/video encoders and transcoders. Allegro products have been chosen by more than 55 major IC providers, OEMs and broadcasters.
See: www.allegrodvt.com
About LMT
LMT is mobile network operator in Latvia, providing high quality service and the widest network coverage in the country. LMT operates on the mobile market since 1992 and has the strongest leading position on the Latvian market.
See: www.lmt.lv
Allegro will present its encoders and transcoders for 3GPP Mobile TV. The same devices are also used for IPTV, PiP, Internet TV, T-DMB Digital Radio and T-DMB Mobile TV.
Allegro also provides its industry-standard compliance test suites for H.264 video decoders, and its high definition H.264 video encoding hardware IP.
Barcelona, Fira Montjuic, February 16-19, 2009.
Hall 2, French Pavilion.
Allegro will demonstrate its encoder for T-DMB Visual Radio and Mobile TV at SIEL-SATIS-Le Radio 2008. Allegro also provides its broadcast transcoders and encoders for IPTV, Web TV, 3G Mobile TV, its industry-standard compliance test suites for H.264 video decoders, and also introduces its high definition H.264 video encoding IP.
Paris, Porte de Versailles, October 20-23, 2008.
Hall 7.3, Stand E91.
Allegro will demonstrate the AL2000, its live transcoder for Web TV att Streaming Media Europe 2008 Exhibition. The main outputs are WM8/WM9/VC-1 and Flash/H.264. Allegro also provides its broadcast transcoders and encoders for IPTV, 3G Mobile TV, T-DMB, its industry-standard compliance test suites for H.264 video decoders, and also introduces its high definition H.264 video encoding IP.
London, Novotel London West, October 16-17, 2008.
Stand 6.
Paris, France - September 14, 2008 - French mobile phone operator Bouygues Telecom has selected Allegro devices for its testing purposes in Web TV and Mobile TV broadcasting.
Allegro AL2000 transcoders enable the same program to be broadcast simultaneously to three screens, reaching the widest possible audience on IPTV, WebTV and Mobile TV. They ingest MPEG-2 or H.264 content and deliver it transcoded to a variety of codecs including MPEG-2, MPEG-4 SP, H.263, H.264, Flash, WM9/VC-1, MPEG-1 Layer II, AMR, AAC-LC, HE-AAC v1/v2 and WMA. Operations include video resize, frame rate change, audio adjustment and encapsulation in SPTS, RTP/RTCP, RTMP, or ASF. This allows interoperability with various ecosystems (streaming servers, CDNs, players) and satisfies specific constraints required by DVB, 3GPP, Windows Media, Flash, ISDB-Tb, T-DMB or any other custom application.
A single 1 RU unit delivers up to 16 encoding profiles for unrivaled integration. It also offers redundancy and SNMP graphical control for easier operation. Highly flexible and easy to use, Allegro transcoders are already the choice of many operators and broadcasters around the world.
"We are proud to have been chosen by a major operator like Bouygues Telecom" said Pierre Marty, Allegro's CEO. "Bouygues Telecom's decision to choose our products is a further endorsement of our growing reputation as a supplier of quality encoders and transcoders for three-screen broadcasting."
Bouygues Telecom is currently operating Allegro devices in its test labs, for both Internet TV and Mobile TV streams.
About Allegro
Allegro is a leading provider of H.264/MPEG-4 AVC solutions, including industry standard compliance test suites and real-time audio/video encoders and transcoders. Allegro products have been chosen by more than 55 major IC providers, OEMs and broadcasters.
See: www.allegrodvt.com
Allegro will demonstrate its transcoder for IPTV, WebTV, and Mobile TV, and its new MPEG-2/H.264 mosaic generator. Allegro also provides its industry-standard compliance test suites for H.264 video decoders, and also introduces its high definition H.264 video encoding IP.
Amsterdam, RAI, September 12-16, 2008.
Stand 1.F90, Hall 1.
Grenoble, France - September 8, 2008 - At IBC 2008 Allegro will present its DVB-T (European and Asian markets), ISDB-Tb (Brazilian market) and DTMB (Chinese market) system test streams. These suites are complementary to Allegro industry standard H.264/MPEG-4 AVC compliance test streams. They allow comprehensive testing of system features including:
- Audio/video synchronization
- Dynamic picture resolution change
- Aspect ratio
- Dynamic video codec change
- Active Format Description
- DVB subtitles
- Closed captions
- Teletext
As opposed to competing system test streams that are simply captures of existing broadcasts, the Allegro suites have been specially designed to test compliance with all the possibilities offered by DVB-T, ISDB-Tb and DTMB standards. Thanks to Allegro system test streams, IC vendors, OEMs and broadcasters can be sure that their products will comply with today's and tomorrow's broadcasts. No other system test streams can offer this guarantee for the future. What is more, thanks to the very high density of Allegro system test streams, DVB-T, ISDB-Tb or DTMB systems can be validated in just a few hours.
Allegro DVB-T, ISDB-Tb and DTMB system test streams have already been licensed to more than 20 companies.
More information on Allegro system test streams can be found at:
http://www.allegrodvt.com/certification-system-streams.php
About Allegro
Allegro is a leading provider of H.264/MPEG-4 AVC solutions, including industry standard compliance test suites and real-time audio/video encoders and transcoders. Allegro products have been chosen by more than 55 major IC providers, OEMs and broadcasters.
See: www.allegrodvt.com
Grenoble, France - May 6, 2008 - Allegro announces the immediate availability of its high-profile, high-definition H.264/MPEG-4 AVC hardware video encoding IP (RTL).
Allegro's H.264 IP core is a real-time hardware encoder targeting mobile phones, camcorders, set-top boxes, webcams and video surveillance applications. The IP core uses Allegro's H.264 compression algorithms originally designed for high quality broadcast applications. Allegro's IP core can process images up to high-definition resolutions.
Allegro's H.264 IP encoder has been fully tested using Allegro's "industry standard" certification streams. Allegro's H.264 encoding technology has already been used successfully in a 65nm System-on-Chip (SoC) by one of the world's top5 IC vendors.
The high-profile design includes the most advanced H.264 coding tools. Using efficient compression tools like cabac entropy coding, dynamic transforms, enhanced intra prediction and scaling lists, Allegro's H.264 encoding IP brings significant bit rates savings compared to existing solutions.
Allegro's H.264 IP encoder is designed for fast and easy integration in a wide range of SoCs. The H.264 IP core is an independent entity, requiring minimum support from the SoC embedded CPU. The motion estimation algorithms have been optimized to fit the memory bandwidth and latency requirements of consumer SoCs. Thanks to the product's hardware architecture, the H.264 coding IPs minimize both gate counts and power consumption.
Allegro's H.264 encoding IPs are also available for H.264 baseline and main profiles in resolutions ranging from CIF to HD.
About Allegro
Allegro is a privately held company providing expertise in digital video processing and state-of-the-art H.264/AVC solutions. It delivers H.264/AVC compliance testing suites and audio/video encoders and transcoders for mobile and web TV, IPTV, T-DMB and Visual Radio. Allegro customers include silicon vendors, set-top box, mobile phone, TV-set and DVD player manufacturers and satellite, cable and telco operators. For more information, visit www.allegrodvt.com or contact info@allegrodvt.com
Along with its transcoders for IPTV, WebTV, and Mobile TV, Allegro unveils its MPEG-2/H.264 mosaic generator. Featuring video and audio transcoding, resizing, and compositing, the Allegro mosaic generator can be used for TV channel browsing, and monitoring applications.
Las Vegas, LVCC, April 14-17, 2008.
Sencore Stand #N1122
Allegro demonstrates its updated audio/video transcoders at IPTV World Forum 2008. AL2000 (IPTV, WebTV) and AL2010 (WebTV, Mobile TV) now deliver up to 8 or 16 channels in 1 RU.
Olympia, London (UK) March12-14, 2008
Stand #44
Allegro demonstrates its Certification Service and its AL1/2 H.264 Audio/Video Real-Time Encoders/Transcoders at IBC2007.
Amsterdam RAI, Amsterdam (Netherlands) September 7-11, 2007
Hall 2 Stand #329
Allegro demonstrates its updated Audio/Video Real-Time Encoders and Transcoders at NAB 2007.
Product lines target both IPTV and MobileTV markets (3G, DVB-H, T-DMB), with up to 4 source-independent MPEG-2 to H.264 transcoders packed in a single 1U rack unit.
Las Vegas, LVCC, April 16-19, 2007.
Sencore Stand #N1113
Silicon-Proven MM2000™ Platform Now Fully Certified Against H.264 Standard Specification.
SAN JOSE, Calif. and GRENOBLE, France, March 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CEVA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CEVA)(LSE: CVA), a leading licensor of innovative intellectual property (IP) platform solutions and DSP cores for wireless, consumer and multimedia applications, and Allegro, a leading provider of H.264/MPEG-4 AVC solutions, today announced that CEVA's MM2000™ programmable multimedia platform has passed the Allegro test suite for H.264 Baseline Profile Levels 2 and 3, including Syntax and Stress tests. H.264/AVC is a compression video standard that brings a 50 percent bitrate saving over the well-established MPEG-2 standard.
Allegro's test streams have a worldwide reputation in the video industry for professional video conformance testing, especially for H.264. The compliance of MM2000 against Allegro's syntax and stress test streams certifies that CEVA's H.264 Codec is fully functional and reliable in terms of the H.264 standard specification. MM2000, a member of the Mobile-Media family of solutions from CEVA, is a silicon-proven multimedia platform for mobile devices supporting advanced video encoders and decoders up to SD resolution. In addition to the H.264 codec, the scalable solution offers a broad range of plug-and-play video, audio and imaging codecs including, MPEG4 Simple Profile, MPEG4 Advanced Simple Profile, JPEG, MP3, HE-AAC, WMA and more.
“The validation of our H.264 Codec IP by Allegro guarantees exceptional quality and performance for H.264-based multimedia System-on-Chip solutions based on our MM2000 platform,” said Erez Bar-Niv, Chief Technology Officer at CEVA. “CEVA is committed to ensuring that all of our multimedia IP conforms with industry-standard specifications, and by passing Allegro certifications, our customers are guaranteed that CEVA codecs are fully compliant with the H.264 standard.”
“We are pleased to have been chosen by a leading provider of multimedia IP like CEVA for validation of their H.264 video codec IP,” said Pierre Marty, CEO of Allegro. “CEVA's decision to choose our certification program is a further endorsement of our growing reputation as the de facto provider of H.264 test streams in the semiconductor and electronics industries.”
CEVA has already licensed the Mobile-Media platform to eight leading customers, with initial products based on this platform expected to reach the market in early 2008. CEVA recently demonstrated the latest advances in this silicon-proven multimedia platform at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona and the IIC China Conference & Exhibition in Beijing and Shanghai. For more information on MM2000 and the complete suite of Mobile-Media solutions from CEVA, visit www.ceva-dsp.com/mobile-media.
About Allegro
Allegro is a leading provider of H.264/MPEG-4 AVC solutions, including industry standard Compliance Test Suites, Real-time audio/video Encoders and Transcoders. Allegro products have been chosen by more than 35 major IC providers, OEMs and Broadcasters.
See: www.allegrodvt.com
About CEVA, Inc.
Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., CEVA is a leading licensor of innovative intellectual property (IP) platform solutions and DSP cores for wireless, consumer and multimedia applications. CEVA's IP portfolio includes comprehensive platform solutions for multimedia, audio, voice over packet (VoP), Bluetooth, Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Serial ATA (SATA), and a wide range of programmable DSP cores and subsystems with different price/performance metrics serving multiple markets. In 2006, CEVA's IP was shipped in over 190 million devices.
For more information, visit www.ceva-dsp.com.
Source: CEVA, Inc.
Allegro demonstrates its updated Audio/Video Real-Time Encoders and Transcoders at CABSAT 2007.
Product lines target both IPTV and MobileTV markets (3G, DVB-H, T-DMB), with up to 4 source-independent MPEG-2 to H.264 transcoders packed in a single 1U rack unit.
Dubai, World Trade Center, March 06-08, 2007.
Stand #A3-37
Allegro demonstrates its updated Audio/Video Real-Time Encoders and Transcoders at IPTV WorldForum 07.
Product lines target both IPTV and MobileTV markets (3G, DVB-H, T-DMB), with up to 4 source-independent MPEG-2 to H.264 transcoders packed in a single 1U rack unit.
London, Olympia 2, March 05-07, 2007.
Stand #100-101
Allegro demonstrates its updated Audio/Video Real-Time Encoders and Transcoders at TVoDSL 2007. These updated products now target DVB-H, 3G, T-DMB, and IPTV markets. They offer an unparalleled level of integration, with up to 4 independent MPEG-2 to H.264 transcoders packed in a single 1U rack unit.
Paris, Sofitel Rive Gauche, January 24-26, 2007.
Stand #216
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