NVIDIA announces the release of NVENC Video Codec SDK 12.1 showcasing the integration with Beamr CABR
25 May 2023 - 9:00PM
NVIDIA Corporation announced today the release of Video Codec SDK
12.1, including new APIs to support Beamr Imaging Ltd.'s (NASDAQ:
BMR) Content Adaptive Bit Rate (CABR) library, as part of the new
Nvidia Encoder (NVENC) features enabling enhanced video processing
use-cases on Nvidia GPUs. This collaborative effort aims to deliver
fully standard compliant bitstreams with the lowest possible bit
rate for a given perceptual quality, setting new benchmark in
quality driven encoding.
The integration of
CABR with NVENC, utilizing the Iterative Encoding, Recon, and
External look ahead features, enables a range of powerful use
cases, unlocking new use cases offering significant benefits for
video encoding. These use cases include reducing bitrate of a
target encode while preserving quality, as well as codec
modernization.
“Codec modernization
is a particularly promising use case, enabling fully automatic,
quality guaranteed upgrade to modern codecs, while preserving the
quality of the previous video stream. This is achieved by invoking
the CABR-NVENC optimization process without specifying a bit rate
value. In this scenario, the algorithm produces compressed videos
with perceptually identical quality to the original, achieving up
to 50% compression gain. This flow allows seamless transcoding
between different video codecs, making upgrades of video
repositories to newer, more efficient coding standards easy and
seamless. This is a powerful enabler for accelerating the adoption
of new emerging standards such as AV1”, said Sharon Carmel, Founder
and CEO of Beamr.
The extent of bit rate
savings achieved by CABR vary based on file content and scene
complexity, with typical averages ranging between 30% and 40%.
These substantial savings in bit rate requirements reduce storage
needs and are expected to result in significant cost reductions,
particularly in scenarios where millions of streams need to be
stored in high quality. Additionally, CABR's intelligent
optimizations make a significant impact in user-generated content
(UGC) on smartphones, where conservative bit rates are used to
ensure quality.
Furthermore, the
integration of CABR-NVENC leads to lower Content Delivery Network
(CDN) costs by minimizing bandwidth requirements. These
enhancements translate to efficient video delivery and improved
streaming experiences.
Previously, CABR was
suited to offline processing, but now, powered by NVIDIA GPUs,
CABR-NVENC operates in real time, enhancing its application for
optimizing live video creation services. This breakthrough
technology empowers content creators and streaming platforms to
achieve superior video compression and delivery performance while
maintaining exceptional visual quality.
The release of the
Video Codec marks a significant step in video compression
innovation, offering industry-leading solutions that are designed
to redefine the boundaries of efficiency and quality enabling
significant advancements in video streaming, storage, and
distribution.
For more information, please visit the
NVIDIA blog:
developer.nvidia.com/blog/new-video-creation-and-streaming-features-accelerated-by-the-nvidia-video-codec-sdk/
For more information, please visit
beamr.com/cabr
About Beamr
Beamr NASDAQ:BMR is
the world leader in content adaptive video solutions. Backed by 53
granted patents, and winner of the 2021 Technology and Engineering
Emmy® award and the 2021 Seagate Lyve Innovator of the Year award,
Beamr's perceptual optimization technology enables up to a 50%
reduction in bitrate with guaranteed quality. www.beamr.com
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