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Luxoft Introduces VP9 Video Codec for 4K/UltraHD [Professional Services Close - Up](Professional Services Close - Up Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Luxoft detailed the creation of its Professional VP9 Codec Software Development Kit (SDK) - the Company's commercial version of the current reference VP9 codec from Google. A codec's primary function is to encode or decode a digital data signal or stream. In its release, the Company said that its SDK significantly improves the balance between performance and quality of the Google codec, and increases encoding performance. Luxoft's added that its codec is designed to help video content providers, cloud servers, and live-streaming companies produce effective, real-time 4K/ UltraHD encoding and video streaming. "Today we are excited to expand the line of Luxoft embedded media products by supplying a new high performance implementation of VP9 technology to the top-tier companies around the world" said Michael Minkevich, Vice President of Technology Services of Luxoft. "Video content delivery market is looking forward to the next generation of high-quality software codecs and Luxoft proud to take this challenge with its industry level VP9 4K". Luxoft Holding is a provider of software development services and IT solutions. More information and complete details: www.luxoft.com ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) (c) 2014 ProQuest Information and Learning Company; All Rights Reserved. |