Beamr Delivers World's First 8K Live HEVC Software Video Encoder powered by an AMD EPYC™ Processor In Time for Tokyo 2020 Olympics

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Beamr has unleashed a world record video encoding benchmark by showing [style=margin: 0px 0px 1em; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;]TEL AVIV, Israel[/style], [style=margin: 0px 0px 1em; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;]According to the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), by the end of 2022, more than 3.4 million 8K[/style] TVs will have been sold in the US alone. Mordor Intelligence reports that the [style=margin: 0px 0px 1em; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;]"The AMD EPYC 7002 Series Processors arrived in perfect time for broadcast and OTT video streaming customers preparing for Tokyo[/style] 2020. Video services everywhere are beginning to compete with higher quality and expanded resolutions," stated [style=margin: 0px 0px 1em; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;]Video Encoding Performance Optimized
"2nd Gen AMD EPYC[/style] processors deliver exceptional levels of performance and TCO for media & entertainment customers," said [style=margin: 0px 0px 1em; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;]The fantastic performance of Beamr 5 is as a result of the highly optimized parallelism which can be found inside the core architecture of its codec engine. This is a unique feature of all Beamr software encoders and is covered by a portion of our 45 International patents that enable the capability to encode live 8K[/style] 10-bit HEVC video at 60 FPS reliably with broadcast quality.
With the rise of AMD EPYC™ 7002 Series Processors in public cloud and private data centers, video services will be happy to know that the performance available with Beamr on AMD for [style=margin: 0px 0px 1em; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;]Expanding the Beamr Software Encoding Ecosystem with AMD EPYC™ Processors
Users of Beamr 5 include some of the biggest OTT video streaming services in the world. Broadcasters, Pay TV distributors, and OTT streaming services are racing to show consumers that they have the most compelling content, with equally matched video quality.



Download the Solution Brief to learn more about the Beamr - AMD EPYC™ 8K[/style] live software encoding solution: beamr.com/[style=margin: 0px 0px 1em;]For a closer view of the video quality that this groundbreaking 8K[/style] live encoding solution can produce, you can meet with the Beamr team at the IBC show in Amsterdam, September 13th to the 17th, 2019. The Beamr booth will be found in Hall 5.C50.
About Beamr
Beamr serves the world's top Pay TV and OTT video service providers as the leading designer and developer of high-performance broadcast-grade encoding and optimization software solutions. Beamr video encoding products enable the highest video quality and bitrate efficiency for MSOs, OTT content distributors, broadcasters, and video streaming platforms. Backed by 45 International patents, Beamr's codec and content-adaptive encoding technology extend into a line of HEVC and H.264 encoders that feature CABR, a rate-control mode that enables guaranteed quality with bitrates up to 50% smaller than VBR as a result of the encoder adapting perfectly to the specific needs of the content being encoded. Founded in 2009, Beamr investors include Verizon Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, and Disruptive.
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