Freescale Semiconductor, Fujitsu Microelectronics and Alpha Systems co-develop new digital media server development platform

Freescale Semiconductor, Fujitsu Microelectronics and Alpha Systems co-develop new digital media server development platform

Freescale Fujitsu and Alpha Systems have co-developed a digital media server (DMS) development platform that enables real-time transcoding of video content.

DLNA-conformant solution enables real-time conversion from MPEG2 HD to H.264

The platform conforms to Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) Networked Device Interoperability Guidelines.

The market is expected to expand for home servers that can transcode, store and distribute digital audio and video content throughout the home to networked devices in each room. Using the platform, manufacturers can quickly create DMS products that not only conform to DLNA guidelines, but also transcode MPEG-2 HD (High Definition) video content into the more compressed H.264 HD or H.264 SD (Standard Definition) formats in real time. For example, products based on the solution enable consumers to stream HD-resolution content captured on an HDD recorder in a home's living room to a bedroom, where it can be displayed on a small SD-resolution television.

About the new DMS development platform
The new development platform integrates Freescale's high-speed, high-performance PowerQUICC II Pro communications processor and Fujitsu Microelectronics' MB86H52 transcoder LSI, which can efficiently compress video from MPEG-2 to H.264 in real time. The platform also deploys Alpha Systems' DMS application (ADMS) conforming to the DLNA Guideline v1.5.