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 .

## Contents

* 1 Organizational structure and customers
* 1.1 Group Divisions
* 1.2 Elecard offices
* 1.3 Notable customers and partners
* 2 Products
* 3 Supported formats
* 3.1 Video formats
* 3.2 Audio formats
* 3.3 Multiplexing / Demultiplexing
* 4 Awards
* 5 See also
* 6 References

## 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 )

### Notable customers and partners

* Intel Corporation
* Netflix
* Huawei
* Cisco Systems
* Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
* ERICSSON
* Siemens Schweiz AG
* The Walt Disney Company
* FranceTV
* Aupera Technologies Inc.
* Ostankino Telecom
* ReadyTV
* MTS
* Telemedia (PTY) LTD
* Telefonica
* SIM International
* Sisvel
* Swisscom
* CCMA

## 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]

## See also

* Comparison of video codecs
* Comparison of video editing software

## References

1. ↑ "Elecard - Company Overview and History". http://www.elecard.com/en/company/about.html. Retrieved Jul 12, 2011.
2. ↑ "Sixth MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Video Codecs Comparison-Short Version". http://compression.ru/video/codec_comparison/h264_2010/. Retrieved May 25, 2010.
3. ↑ "Seventh MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Video Codecs Comparison-Standard Version". http://compression.ru/video/codec_comparison/h264_2011/. Retrieved May 27, 2011.
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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