Video compression firms V-Nova and NGCodec have announced a partnership to jointly develop an FPGA encoding solution which is claimed to deliver market-leading Ultra HD video bitrates.

NGCodec RealityCodec HEVC/H.265 encoders run on FPGAs instead of CPUs in data centres. FPGAs are programmed at the hardware level and, says Nova and NGCodec, hence provide 10x more performance than CPUs. By using FPGAs in public data centres like AWS, the companies believe that encoding costs can be significantly reduced whilst still providing very high compression efficiency.
The joint solution also uses V-Nova’s PERSEUS 2 alongside the highly performing NGCodec’s RealityCodec, the enabling broadcasters, operators and service providers to run UHDp60 frame rates in real-time on a single FPGA.
“The next generation of PERSEUS supports more platforms than ever, including FPGAs, making it perfectly suited for NGCodec’s RealityCodec encoders,” said V-Nova CEO and co-founder Guido Meardi. “NGCodec RealityCodec ** is outperforming software encoders at the highest quality settings. The combination of our technologies is able to encode UHD in real-time at 60fps on a single AWS F1 instance, providing dramatic operational savings to help the industry maximise today’s infrastructure and making a business case for new services.”