Award-winning Qvu™ architecture enables Quartics’ devices to deliver the most flexible and efficient, high-performance transcoding capabilities available. With Qvu™’s fully-programmable platform, Quartics’ video processors provide the capability to transcode any video stream from one video codec format to any other video codec format, providing seamless transcoding to handsets, mobile devices, handheld devices and handheld games, from multi-standard video sources. Just as Quartics’ video processing solutions provide high-performance universal decode and encode, Qvu™-enabled VPUs also provide the capability for efficient, high-performance transcode of any existing DCT-based video codec format. In addition, Quartics’ flexible, programmable platform allows for upgrades in transcoding capabilities in order to support future codec standards as they become available, extending the useful life of any Qvu™-enabled device.

Qvu™’s high-performance universal SD and HD transcode capability allows manufacturers to provide video solutions with near universal compatibility that seamlessly stream video to any number of handheld and mobile consumer electronic products, including iPhone, PlayStation Portable, Walkman, and iPod. Qvu™ is capable of providing high-performance SD or HD transcode of any device-specific format for the most efficient and flexible universal transcode solution available for PC and other consumer electronics applications.

In addition to seamless universal SD and HD transcode, Quartics’ video processors also provide state-of-the-art image enhancement on streaming video content during transcode. The advanced post-processing techniques of Quartics’ breakthrough Qvu™ technology improve both SD and HD video quality beyond high definition to Super Resolution. Quartics’ video processing solutions deliver sharper, brighter video images with more vivid, deep colors and better dynamic range, for a dramatically improved video viewing experience on transcoded video content. Quartics’ VPUs also provide high-performance upscale of standard video to HD quality during transcode. For all the details about Quartics’ state-of-the-art Super Resolution video image enhancement capabilities, please see our Super Resolution page under the Applications section.

When implemented in a PC environment, Quartics’ video processing solutions comply with Microsoft standards in order to support the Windows 7 native transcode utility, facilitating the integration of Quartics’ VPUs into PC-based video processing applications.