Magnum provides a complete line of Encoders, Transcoders, and Decoders for Broadcast Servers, and coprocessors and SoCs for Living Room Clients
Magnum provides a complete line of Encoders, Transcoders, and Decoders chipsets and manufacturable reference design for Broadcast Servers, as well as coprocessors and SoCs for Living Room Clients.
The company's family of broadcast encoders and transcoders offer a single architecture for all broadcast applications including production, contribution, and distribution equipment. Magnum is the only semiconductor company that harnesses the rich video compression technology from broadcast to provide compression-enabled living room set-top boxes, opening a host of possibilities for download-to-portable and personal broadcasting. Magnum's video compression and video processing technologies allow service providers to achieve maximum video quality at the industry's lowest bitrates, optimizing storage and transmission costs.
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Pluto Reference Design
Development with the DXTPro family of professional broadcast encoders, decoders and transcoders is supported by the Pluto reference design & development kit. This kit ships with the Pluto PCI Express add-on card with dual DXTPro chips, pre-installed in a tower PC running Linux and all necessary device drivers. Also included are encode, decode and transcode utilities, board design files and operation documentation. The Pluto reference board comes with 3G/HD/SD-SDI inputs and ASI outputs.
Distribution | DX9353 Multi-core, multi-standard, multi-resolution, multi-stream, single-chip broadcast distribution, production and contribution decoder
The DXTPro DX9353 is a dual-core, multi-standard Full HD/HD/SD fully standards-compliant, robust, multi-stream single-chip decoder for the broadcast distribution, production and contribution segments. It is capable of decoding up to 1080p60 H.264 or MPEG-2 streams, as well as VC-1 streams up to 1080i60/50, and supports 8-bit 4:2:2 full HD, HD and SD MPEG-2 decodes. The DX9353 also supports a multiplicity of audio formats, including AC-3, LC-AAC Level 4 and HE-AAC Level 4.
- H.264 MP/HP up to L4.2 and Constrained BP up to L3
- MPEG-2 MP@ML/HL/HighP Level
- MPEG-2 HP@ML/HL
- 8-bit 4:2:2 MPEG-2 support
- VC-1 MP@ML/HL, AP@L2/L3
- Up to 2 Full HD, 4 HD or 4 simultaneous SD decodes
- Dolby Digital (AC-3) and Dolby Digital Plus 5.1 channel, AAC-LC up to L4, HE-AAC v2 up to L4, MPEG-1 Layer II
- DES/3DES/128-bit AES/Multi2 decryption support
- Error concealment
- Post-processing
- Accurate start & stop
- VBI support
- Quad Transport Stream input ports with MPTS support
- Dual bi-directional Transport Stream ports with MPTS support
- Quad independent BT.656 HD/SD or dual independent BT.1120 Full HD (1080p60/50) digital outputs
- Dual independent 8 channel surround and dual independent stereo I2S outputs
- Dual independent S/PDIF outputs
- PCI 32-bit 66MHz host interface with TS and ES support
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