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.
The Magnum family of products...
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.
Production | DX8313 Multi-core multi-standard, multi-resolution, multi-stream, dual-chip broadcast distribution encoder
The DXTPro DX8313 is a quad-core, multi-standard Full HD/HD/SD two-chip encoder, which delivers industry's highest professional quality video for the broadcast distribution segment. The combination of MCTF, de-blocking and look-ahead encode results in superior video quality. Encode formats include H.264 HP@L4.2 and MPEG-2 Main Profile HighP Level with 8-bit 4:2:2 support. The DX8313 supports 1080p60/50 (Full HD), 1080i60/50, 720p60/50 encode, as well as up to 8 simultaneous SD encodes. The DX8313 is a complete solution, including inverse telecine, simultaneous PiP encoding and full VBI support
- H.264 MP/HP up to L4.2 and Constrained BP up to L3
- All intra modes
- 4x4 and 8x8 transforms
- MBAFF and PAFF
- MPEG-2 MP@ML/HL/HighP Level
- MPEG-2 HP@ML/HL
- 8-bit 4:2:2 MPEG-2 support
- VC-1 MP@ML, AP@L1
- PiP encode
- Up to 8 simultaneous SD encodes
- AAC-LC up to L4, HE-AAC v2 up to L4, MPEG-1 Layer II
- DES/3DES/128-bit AES/Multi2 encryption
- IDR support
- Advanced hierarchical motion estimation
- Weighted prediction
- Fully dynamic GoP, including adaptive I-frame insertion
- Look-ahead support
- VBR and CBR
- MCTF and de-blocking filter
- VBI VBI data extraction and insertion
- Quad Transport Stream output with MPTS support
- 8 independent BT.656 or 4 independent BT.1120 digital inputs
- Quad independent 8 channel surround and quad independent stereo I2S outputs
- Quad independent S/PDIF outputs
- SBP (Secondary Bit stream Port) inter-chip interface (75MBps max)
- PCI 32-bit 66MHz host interface with TS and ES support
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Production | DX8333 Multi-core multi-standard, multi-resolution dual-chip studio production encoder
The DX8333 is a quad-core, multi-standard Full HD/HD/SD single-chip encoder for the professional studio production segment. The combination of MCTF, de-blocking and look-ahead encode results in superior video quality. Multi-standard encoding includes Full HD 1080p50/60 for H.264 and MPEG-2, 8-bit 4:2:2 MPEG-2 HD, and VC-1 HD. Studio-specific features include BD authoring, MPEG-2 SVBR, frame-accurate start & stop and pause/resume.
- H.264 MP/HP up to L4.2
- All intra modes
- 4x4 and 8x8 transforms
- MBAFF and PAFF
- MPEG-2 MP@ML/HL/HighP Level
- MPEG-2 HP@ML/HL
- 8-bit 4:2:2 MPEG-2 support
- VC-1 MP@ML, AP@L1
- Full resolution PiP
- AAC-LC up to L4, HE-AAC v2 up to L4, MPEG-1 Layer II encode
- DES/3DES/128-bit AES/Multi2 encryption
- Advanced hierarchical motion estimation
- Weighted prediction
- Fully dynamic GoP, including adaptive I-frame insertion
- Look-ahead support
- VBR and CBR
- MCTF and de-blocking filter
- VBI data insertion
- BD authoring at 40Mbps max
- Frame accurate start & stop (VITC/SMPTE-based time code reference)
- I-frame or GoP-based segment re-encode
- Multi-GoP look-ahead
- Pause & resume
- Quad Transport Stream output with MPTS support
- 8 independent BT.656 or 4 independent BT.1120 digital inputs
- Quad independent 8 channel surround and quad independent stereo I2S outputs
- Quad independent S/PDIF outputs
- SBP (Secondary Bit stream Port) inter-chip interface (75MBps max)
- PCI 32-bit 66MHz host interface with TS and ES support
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Production | DX8353 Multi-core multi-standard, multi-resolution, multi-stream, single-chip broadcast distribution encoder
The DX8353 is a dual-core, multi-standard HD/SD, high-density single-chip encoder for the broadcast distribution segment. The DX8353 produces industry's highest quality prosumer video. Multi-standard capabilities include H.264 and MPEG-2. Single and multi-stream encode capabilities include single HD stream (1080i50/60 or 720p50/60) and 4 simultaneous SD streams, including PiP encode for each stream and uncompressed or compressed overlay.
- H.264 MP/HP up to L4.1 and Constrained BP up to L3
- All intra modes
- 4x4 and 8x8 transforms
- MBAFF and PAFF
- MPEG-2 MP@ HL
- PiP encode
- Up to 4 simultaneous SD encodes
- Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0, AAC-LC up to L4, HE-AAC v2 up to L4 and MPEG-1 Layer II pass-thru
- DES/3DES/128-bit AES/Multi2 encryption
- IDR support
- Advanced hierarchical motion estimation
- Weighted prediction
- Fully dynamic GoP, including adaptive I-frame insertion
- Look-ahead support
- VBR and CBR
- De-blocking filter
- VBI data extraction and insertion
- Dual Transport Stream output with MPTS support
- Quad independent BT.656 or dual independent BT.1120 digital inputs
- Dual independent 8 channel surround and dual independent stereo I2S outputs
- Dual independent S/PDIF outputs
- SBP (Secondary Bit stream Port) inter-chip interface (75MBps max)
- PCI 32-bit 66MHz host interface with TS and ES support
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