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Seeking to offer acceleration for Apple (News - Alert) Mac pro and MacBook pro, Ambric reportedly has released software for production that uses its Am2045 “massively parallel processor array,” or “MPPA,” on the Mac OS X Leopard platform.

 

Allowing the user to attain up to six times the H.264 encode performance of a software only-based solution, the software plugs into high-level applications, such as Pyro AV Pyro Kompressor software, Sorenson Media’s Squeeze 5 Pro software, and Adobe Premiere Pro CS3.

 

Ambric’s product qualifies for Apple Mac Pro workstations, as well as MacBook Pro laptops. Company officials say that Ambric is perfect as an accelerator for laptop-based encoding, with an external PCI Express box such as the Magma ExpressBox.

 

Facilitating multiple instances to be installed in PCs with no adverse thermal or electrical effects, the Juiced Accelerator Card power consumption remains under 15 watts. If multi-stream codec applications are looking to accelerate simultaneous stream encode, decode, and transcode operations, users may put this scalability to their advantage. The latest 1.5 version of the Pyro Kompressor transcoding application by Pyro AV has valuable new features including logo-insertion, viewing of side-by-side compressed/input frames, and watch folder and batch automation.

 

To improve H.264 encoding performance, the Squeeze 5 Pro Juiced Accelerator Card uses the Am2045 processor. Users can now accelerate video encoding and maintain the high-quality video output that they have come to expect with Sorenson Squeeze.

 

Released earlier this year in collaboration with MainConcept, Ambic’s Am2045 video acceleration software runs on the Am2045 GT2 Video Reference Platform. Also, Ambric and MainConcept have created a product with MainConcept’s accepted quality and features. Professionals all over the world use MainConcept products for authoring DVD and Blu-Ray Discs while dramatically accelerating the performance.

 

“With the Ambric support for Mac OS X Leopard, we are able to offer significant performance acceleration to many more of our customers, enabling them to complete more work in less time and achieve a payback in days,” said Alfred Bantug, general manager of Pyro AV. “We are also very excited about future codec offerings from Ambric that will utilize our existing Pyro Kompressor HD accelerator card, giving us a much broader reach into the video broadcast market with support for AVC-Intra and JPEG 2000.”