The AVC-Intra compression scheme complies with the MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) open standard, and provides 10-bit 4:2:2 full-raster compression at the same bit-rate as DVCPRO HD.

“The AVC-Intra format is fast gaining ground with broadcasters, offering significantly better compression efficiency than older codec families yet maintaining very high picture quality,” said David Trescot, vice president of the Rhozet business unit at Harmonic.

The intra-frame compression technology, developed to provide more enhanced image quality and flexibility in broadcast HD production, was designed to enable more efficient compression without image degradation.

The companies are offering interoperability with Panasonic’s AVC-Intra across Grass Valley’s HD media servers and editing products.

AVC-Intra offers twice the compression efficiency of MPEG-2.

The new version features distributed transcoding across multiple machines.

Rhozet Corp., a media transcoding provider in San Jose, Calif., has released Version 2.0 of Carbon Coder , which provides a host of enhancements including accelerated transcoding and support for additional video formats. The Carbon Coder is a universal transcoding application that supports more than 40 compression fo