Elecard

Type	Private
Industry	; Codecs, IPTV, OTT ; Computer software; Video analysis; Video monitoring; Video transcoding
Founded	April 22, 1988
Founder	Andrey Posdnyakov; Peter Gubanov; Vladimir Kalchikhin
Headquarters	Tomsk, Russia
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Chairman: Andrey Posdnyakov; CEO: Nikolay Milovanov
Subsidiaries	Triaxes Vision ; Elecard-Med ; Solveig Multimedia ; Elecard Devices ; Elecard nanoDevices
Website	www.elecard.com

Elecard is a technology company that provides software products for video and audio encoding, decoding, processing, receiving and transmission.^[1]

Its line of products includes commercial and professional encoders and decoders for most video and audio standards, including H.264 video compression.

Elecard, founded in 1988, has its headquarters in Tomsk, Russia , and an office in Foster City, California .

Organizational structure and customers

Group Divisions

Software codecs and SDK’s
End-user software
Professional video analyzers
DVB/IPTV/WebTV servers
Hardware designs for consumer market

Elecard offices

Tomsk (Russia ) – Headquarters
Moscow (Russia )
San Francisco (United States )

Products

Video analysis	Quality control	Transcoding platforms	Monitoring
StreamEye	Boro	CodecWorks	Multistream Player
StreamEye Studio
StreamEye Basic	SDKs	Playback	Conversion
YUV Viewer	DirectShow Codec SDK	MPEG Player	Converter Studio VOD
Stream Analyzer	GStreamer Codec SDK	MPEG-2 PlugIn
Video Quality Estimator		AVC PlugIn for ProgDVB
Misha Codec Benchmark		AVC PlugIn for WMP

Supported formats

Video formats

Formats	Decoding	Encoding
MPEG–1 Video (ISO/IEC 11172-2)	+	+
MPEG–2 Video (ISO/IEC 13818-2) All profiles/levels up to HighProfile/HighLevel are supported excluding scalability extensions	+	+
MPEG–4 Video p. 10 (ISO/IEC 14496-10), aka H.264/AVC Baseline, Main, High, and High422 profiles supported up to 5.1 Level	+	+
DV 25 (SMPTE 314M-1999)	+	+
DV 50	+	-
DV 100	+	-
H.264\HEVC	+	+

Audio formats

Formats	Decoding	Encoding
MPEG–1/2 Audio (ISO/IEC 11172-3, ISO/IEC 13818-3)
Layer I	+	+
Layer II	+	+
Layer III	+	-

MPEG-4 Audio (ISO/IEC 13818-7)
LC	+	+
LTP	+	+
Main, SSR profiles support	+	-
HE-AAC v1 (SBR)	+	+
HE-AAC v2 (PS)	+	+
LATM AAC	+	-

LPCM (including AES 3 decoding)	+	+

Multiplexing / Demultiplexing

Formats	MPEG-1 System Stream (ISO/IEC 13818-1)	MPEG-2 Program Stream (ISO/IEC 13818-1)	MPEG-2 Transport Stream (ISO/IEC 13818-1), including AVCHD(r)	MP4 ISO compatible files (ISO/IEC 14496-14)	MKV	MXF
MPEG–1 Video (ISO/IEC 11172-2)	+	-	-	-	-	-
MPEG–2 Video (ISO/IEC 13818-2)	+	+	+	+	+	+
MPEG–4 Video p. 2 (ISO/IEC 14496-2) / H.263	-	-	-	+	+	-
MPEG–4 Video p. 10 (ISO/IEC 14496-10), aka H.264/AVC	-	+	+	+	+	+
H.265/HEVC	-	+	+	+	+	-
AV1	-	-	-	-	+	-
MPEG–1/2 audio (ISO/IEC 11172-3, ISO/IEC 13818-3)	+	+	+	+	+	-
MPEG-4 Audio (ISO/IEC 13818-7) LATM AAC (demultiplexing only)	-	+	+	+	+	-
LPCM (including AES 3 demultiplexing)	-	+	+	+	+	+
Dolby Digital audio (AC-3, ATSC A/52)	-	+	+	+	+	-

Awards

According to the results of 2010 MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Video Codec Comparison carried out through Moscow State University Compression Project, Elecard AVC Encoder demonstrated the fastest encoding speed and high picture quality, ranking 5th (and last among the tested H.264 encoders) in the overall codecs comparison results.^[2] However, next year, in the same comparison of 2011, Elecard AVC Encoder made it to the third place behind x264 and DivX Plus HD in the overall rating of software video codecs.^[3]

Elecard was recognized as the “Russian Innovation Leader” at the "New Electronics in Russia" forum in 2009.^[4]

References

↑ "Elecard - Company Overview and History". http://www.elecard.com/en/company/about.html. Retrieved Jul 12, 2011.
↑ "Sixth MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Video Codecs Comparison-Short Version". http://compression.ru/video/codec_comparison/h264_2010/. Retrieved May 25, 2010.
↑ "Seventh MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Video Codecs Comparison-Standard Version". http://compression.ru/video/codec_comparison/h264_2011/. Retrieved May 27, 2011.
↑ "Томская компания Elecard стала Лауреатом премии "Новая электроника России" за 2009 год". Archived from the original on August 20, 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110820204406/http://mb.tomsk.ru/news_to-9137.html. Retrieved April 10, 2009.

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[ElecardCompany-1] "Elecard - Company Overview and History". http://www.elecard.com/en/company/about.html. Retrieved Jul 12, 2011.

[Test_result1-2] "Sixth MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Video Codecs Comparison-Short Version". http://compression.ru/video/codec_comparison/h264_2010/. Retrieved May 25, 2010.

[Test_result2-3] "Seventh MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Video Codecs Comparison-Standard Version". http://compression.ru/video/codec_comparison/h264_2011/. Retrieved May 27, 2011.

[Russian_Innovation_Leader-4] "Томская компания Elecard стала Лауреатом премии "Новая электроника России" за 2009 год". Archived from the original on August 20, 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110820204406/http://mb.tomsk.ru/news_to-9137.html. Retrieved April 10, 2009.

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