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VITEC recently announced its second-generation HEVC codec, which it calls GEN2, at the 2017 National Association of Broadcaster (NAB) Show in Las Vegas.

Powering the company’s MGW Ace Encoder, the industry’s first portable HEVC hardware-based encoder, this new codec “sets new industry standards in quality, surpassing the second-best HEVC codec competitor by 20 percent,” according to the company press release.

When paired with an MGW Ace Decoder, the second-generation HEVC codec “becomes a fully hardware-based, end-to-end 4:2:2 10-bit HEVC encode/decode streaming solution that supports the most demanding and diverse video streaming use cases,” according to the announcement.