VITEC’s Mark Rushton explores change-bitrate-on-the-fly technology and its importance to the ISR community.

VITEC has announced MGW Pico+ TOUGH, a credit card size HEVC encoder and H.264 HD/SD video encoder. Upgrading our MGW Pico TOUGH unit with next-generation HEVC/H.265 compression, it features a robust, fan-less and waterproof design, and is fully MIL-STD certified, making it suitable for use on unmanned and manned vehicles, in fly-away kits, or hand-carried in extreme conditions.

VITEC has announced its intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance (ISTAR) product line up for this year’s Defence & Security Equipment International (DSEI) event taking place in London September 10th to 13th. On Stand N7-340, VITEC will show field-proven products that tackle video ingest, streaming, dissemination, and archiving in the field and inside military and government facilities.

HDM850TM is specifically designed for professional broadcast applications. It supports multiple resolutions, (up to 1080p60) and formats including MPEG-2 and H.264 codecs. Providing continuous, frame-accurate, seamless back-to-back playback as well as outputting all common video formats from SD to 3G over SDI and HDMI, HDM850TM meets your playback needs from today and beyond.

VITEC Multimedia, a worldwide leader in advanced digital video solutions, today announced an addition to the decoder product family, the PCIe-based HDM850TM HD/SD H.264/MPEG-2 decoder card .

Optibase (a Vitec Company), a leading provider of advanced video solutions, today announced that it will present at NAB 2011 the most advanced multi-channel portable H.264 encoder – a low-latency platform, powered by TurboVideo™ technology, that’s faster, denser, more powerful and more cost effective than any encoder now on the market.

VITEC Multimedia, a worldwide leader in advanced digital video solutions, today announced an addition to the Focus product family, the FS-H50, FS-H60 and FS-H70 Proxy Recorders. The Focus FS-H series of proxy recorders greatly simplify the acquisition workflow by recording matching or continuous, lower bit rate H.264 proxy content to complement the cameras own high-resolution content.

Optibase today announced that it has entered into an asset purchase agreement with Optibase Technologies Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of VITEC Multimedia (VITEC) pursuant to which Optibase Ltd. and its subsidiary Optibase Inc. (collectively, Optibase) will sell their entire video business to VITEC (the Business and the Transaction, respectively).

Following its recent acquisition in 2008 of Stradis, Inc. VITEC Multimedia has announced the acquisition of exclusive world wide manufacturing, marketing and distribution rights of former Visual Circuits MPEG Multichannel Decoder boards and previously branded COMO MC-2E Media Converter from FOCUS Enhancements, Inc.

VITEC Multimedia has introduced two new versions of the VMM Family. These Multi-channel capture and compression boards are designed for industrial and professional video applications like: Video surveillance, Digital video recording, live video streaming over IP and video servers.

VITEC Multimedia, a provider of leading edge digital video products and technology since 1988, has introduced its VMC-5400, a capture and compression board designed for developers and integrators of mission critical video-based equipment and video broadcast applications.