M264 Technical Specifications

Single interface
Form factorSingle-slot PCIe cards
- M264: ½ length PCIe x8 Gen2
- M264 S2: ¾ length PCIe x8 Gen3 (x16 mech)
- M264 S3: ¾ length PCIe x16 Gen3 
- M264 S4: full length PCIe x16 Gen3
H.264 codec engine
H.264 codec engine
  • Supports Baseline, Main, High, High10, and High10 Intra, High 4:2:2 and High 4:2:2 Intra profiles up to Level 5.2
  • Supports realtime and faster than realtime encoding, decoding and transcoding
  • Supports UHD, HD, SD, and custom broadcast resolutions (up to 60fps)
    - 4:2:0 YUV 8-bit
    - 4:2:2 YUV 10-bit
  • Supports both interlaced and progressive video
  • CABAC/CAVLC entropy coding
  • Selectable bit rate encoding
    - VBR (Variable Bit Rate)
    - CBR (Constant Bit Rate)
  • Scene detection
  • Dynamic rate control
  • Dynamic GOP control
  • Deblocking filtering
  • Low latency encoding targeting <20 ms (I or IP GOP)
  • Total bitrates of 500 Mbps (CABAC) or 800 Mbps (CAVLC)
  • Compliant with Panasonic AVC-Ultra
  • Compliant with Sony XAVC
Video processing engine
Video processing engine
  • Multi-channel Motion Adaptive Deinterlacer
    - Pixel-based operation
    - Temporal and spatial-based motion estimation
    - Anti-Aliasing filtering
  • Multi-channel scaler
    - Up, down and cross scaling
    - Supports custom resolutions and standard broadcast resolutions up to UHD
  • In-line processing
    - Deinterlace/scale before encoding 
    - Deinterlace/scale after decoding
  • Up to 1.5Gpixels/sec processing (M264)