elemedia® Video Codecs

Agora Labs offers software components in support of application developers in the multimedia over IP industry.  Agora Labs' customers typically build upon these components to develop new multimedia services or applications.

The Agora Labs Video Codecs were originally developed at Lucent’s Bell Labs.  Elemedia was an incubator within Lucent that emulated a “Silicon Valley” startup; the original plan has now come to fruition because the elemedia products have matured and are being developed, supported and licensed by Agora Labs.

 Transmission of video in its raw format is far too bandwidth intensive.  Software components that compress and uncompress the raw video data into smaller bitstreams whose bandwidth requirements are more manageable, are called video encoders and decoders respectively, or simply, video codecs. Like protocol stacks, video codecs that adhere to the ITU-T international standards insure complete interoperability with other products.  Agora Labs has four video codecs to choose from. The H.263 compliant video codec is the VX1000SP codec, the H.263+ compliant video codec  is the VX2000S codec, the H.261 compliant video codec is the VX3000S codec and the MPEG-4 compliant video codec is the VX4000S.  Customers normally license these codecs as object code software.

Agora Labs is adding to their video codec product line, contact us if you don't see the codec you need!

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