Renesas Releases Middleware for MPEG-4 and H.264 Compatible Hardware Accelerator

Capable of 720 x 480 pixel size encoding/decoding at 30 fps, facilitating development of high-image-quality moving image recording/playback applications

Renesas Technology Corp. today announced the development of middleware for the company's VPU4 (Video Processing Unit 4) image processing hardware accelerator supporting international moving image coding standards such as MPEG-4(*1) and H.264/MPEG-4 AVC(*2). This middleware will be available from September 6, 2005 in Japan.