Pyro Kompressor HD™ for Mac

PYRO Kompressor HD™ Board
• One PYRO Kompressor HD™ massively-parallel, TeraOPS-class processor with 336 32-bit RISC processors, 322 GigaSADS, 59 GigaMACS
• Only 15 Watts ― 1/10 the power and heat of high-end 3D cards
• Field upgradeable software for additional video compression formats, video filters, etc. - more value-added revenue opportunities for you.
• Fits 4-, 8- and 16-lane, non-graphics PCI Express slots
• 256 MBytes memory in 4 DDR2-400 devices, 3.2 GBytes/s
• Low Profile 2.7”x 5” board dimensions, FITS any Intel Mac with a PCIe Slot, single-slot clearance
• Two-year warranty

Features of Pyro Kompressor HD™ Software Application
• Hardware-accelerated MPEG-2 and H.264 encoding
• Transcoding from a variety of compression input formats
• Up and down-scaling
• Frame-rate/sample-rate conversion
• Custom or pre-defined settings for output
• ‘Watch folder’ for background job automation
• Specify in and out points for encoding
• Chapter support
• Batch encoding
• Saving/restoring batch job lists
• Drag & drop new files into the batch tasks
• Specify target output file size
• Mux’ing streams from different input files

Breakthrough Price-Performance for Video Acceleration
• Pyro Kompressor HD offers 4X the cost-effectiveness of other programmable accelerators with its teraOPS-class, massively-parallel chip.
• On-chip PCI Express® reduces cost, power and footprint.

Integrated With MainConcept®
• The MainConcept ReferenceTM transcoder application is also included, integrated for acceleration, including accelerator GUI controls. Includes extensive Blu-ray presets, watch-folder automation, plus logo/branding of the GUI and documentation for OEMs.
• Included Reference decoders enable a broad range of transcoding: DV, HDV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, H.264, AVCHD, AVC-Intra, VC-1*, XDCAM, DVCPRO 25/50, DVCPRO-HD/100, JPEG2000*, RGB and YUV files, plus QuickTime import.

Plug-and-Play With MainConcept-Licensed Applications
• Pending testing, multiple applications incorporate Pyro Kompressor HD - compatible MainConcept HW APIs, which expands the available market.

The Accelerator Board
• One massively-parallel processor with 336 RISC processors, delivering a teraOPS of video horsepower.
• Fits 4-, 8- and 16-lane PCI Express slots (non-graphics)
• 256 MBytes memory
• Approximately 15 Watts typical power, 5 Watts idle power
• 2.7”x 5” board dimensions, single-slot clearance
• Low-profile fan for reliable operation in low-airflow systems
• 2-year warranty from Pyro AV

Easy to install
• Based on the PCI Express® standard, the accelerator card is easy to install and is compatible with more systems, compared to the older PCI/PCI-X standard.

Ease of Deployment and Support
• PCI Express is inherently easier to install and support than older interface standards
• Extensive testing with multiple industry test labs helps ensure compatibility with Apple Intel-based systems.

Platforms
• Apple Mac OS® X Leopard
• Laptops with ExpressCard slot and a Magma™ PCIe ExpressBox™
• Refer to www.pyroav.com for a list of supported systems and motherboards.

Exporting your project to MPEG-2 HD or H.264 for Blu-ray production can take hours. Save time and money by accelerating the process with Pyro Kompressor HD™.

• Accelerate high-definition video authoring compression with Pyro Kompressor HD’s high-quality MPEG-2 and H.264 compression for DVD, Blu-ray Disk, web streaming media,dailies, archival storage, IPTV, VOD or other uses.
• Editors and Effects artists: Accelerate test-compression runs during video editing, compositing, or special effects work
• Use with Pyro Kompressor HD’s software application (Included)
• Future-proofed — field-upgradeable functions; switch in milliseconds
• Programmable for HD video pre/post-processing, such as advanced temporal filters. Develop your own algorithms or codecs.

Features of Pyro Kompressor HD™ H.264/AVC Pro-level encoder
• Up to 5.1 level Baseline, Main and High profiles
• Available Bitrates: At least up to Blu-Ray, HD-DVD bitrates
• I, P, B slices. One picture can comprise slices of one type only. Pyramid structure is enabled.
• Resolution: Up to 5.1 Level restriction (36864 macroblocks)
• Chroma Format: 4:2:0
• Multiple instances at a time on a computer
• Multi CPU usage supported
• Pyro Kompressor HD’s accelerator card accelerates encoding many times faster than software-only, depending on system configuration
• CBR, VBR, multi-pass encoding is enabled, plus constant quantization
• Intra modes: 16x16 and 4x4 for luma, 8x8 for chroma
• Inter modes: 16x16, 16x8, 8x16, 8x8, the Skip mode for P- and B- frames, Spatial Direct mode for B-frames
• CABAC/CAVLC according to the standard profiles’ specifications
• Multi-reference inter-prediction
• In-loop de-blocking filter
• Interlace support: Up to 5.1 level Baseline, Main and High Profiles
• Multi-pass encoding
• AVCHD decoding
• AVC-Intra decoding
• Qpel refinement

Audio:
• Fully compliant to ISO/IEC 14496-3 (MPEG-4 AAC) and ISO/IEC 13818-7 (MPEG-2 AAC)
• Fully compliant to ISO/IEC 14496-3 Amendment 1 (HE v1)
• Fully compliant to ISO/IEC 14496-3 Amendment 2 (HE v2)
• Encoding supports Low Complexity, HE v1 and HE v2
• Decoding supports LC, Main, LTP, HE v1, HE v2
• Sampling rates supported for LC: 8, 11.025, 16, 22.05, 24, 32, 44.1, 48,64, 88.2 and 96 kHz
• Sampling rates supported for HE: 16, 22.05, 24, 32, 44.1, 48 kHz
• Constant bitrates (CBR) supported for LC: 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 20, 24,28, 32, 40, 48, 56, 64, 80, 96, 112, 128, 160, 192, 224, 256, 320, 384, 448, 512, 640, 768, 896 and 1024 kbps (maximum bitrate depends on the sampling rate and number of channels)
• HE v1 constant bitrates (CBR) supported, sampling frequency dependent, e.g. 44.1 kHz stereo - 40, 48, 56, 64, 80 and 96 kbps
• HE v2 constant bitrates (CBR) supported, sampling frequency dependent, e.g. 44.1 kHz stereo - 20, 28, 32 and 40 kbps
• 9 quality levels for variable bitrates (VBR) encoding (LC only)
• Support for 8, 16 and 24-bit PCM input
• Output format: RAW (no header, used for multiplexing into mp4 file format), ADTS (Audio Data Transport Stream header, stand-alone AAC files), LOAS/LATM (used for multiplexing into MPEG-2 streams)
• Channel configurations supported for LC and HE v1:
- mono (1 channel, front center speaker),
- stereo (2 channels, front left+right speakers),
- LRC (3 channels, front left+right+center speakers),
- LRCS (4 channels, front left+right+center, back center speakers),
- 5.0 (5 channels, front left+right+center, back left+right),
- 5.1 surround (6 channels, front left+right+center, back left+right, low frequency enhanced speakers).
• Channel configurations supported for HE v2: - stereo (2 channels, front left+right speakers).
• Presets available for targeting Apple iPod® and Sony PSP®
• Dolby Digital Stereo

Stream Type:
• MPEG-2 program stream, transport stream
• MP4 File Format

Part Number PVC-9001