MainConcept AAC Encoder is the latest addition to MainConcept’s successful set of Plug-Ins to enrich Adobe products with state-of-the-art codec solutions. It offers professional AAC Encoding within the Adobe® Flash® Media Encoder 2.5 that only comes with Nellymoser or MP3 audio encoding as standard.

The Flash Media Encoder already includes the MainConcept H.264 Encoder technology to create professional video streams. Now using the AAC Encoder Plug-In, it additionally supports AAC (MPEG-4 AAC & HE Audio), enabling you to directly create and stream Flash compliant F4V or FLV files that include both H.264/AVC video and AAC audio. It is the perfect companion for the Flash Media Encoder, as it enables you to generate Flash compliant streams using these encoders on-the-fly. And your files are always compliant with the latest Flash Player version.

AAC and HE-AAC offer a significantly better audio quality while using the same bit rate as other audio codecs, especially for bit rates below 192 kbps. It was developed to be the successor of MP3. AAC even offers a higher range of sample rates than MP3.

3ivx is an MPEG-4 toolkit that supports MPEG-4 Video, MPEG-4 Audio and the MP4 file format. 3ivx D4 4.5 allows video and audio to be compressed to a fraction of its original size while maintaining high image quality. You can store over 2 hours of near DVD quality audio and video on a single CD-ROM or stream near DVD quality video over a cable modem or DSL modem.

The bitcontrol® MPEG-2/4, H.263 video and audio decoder is suited for Windows Media® Player, bitcontrol® Quad Recorder and other players for MS Windows® 98/ME/2K/XP/Vista32/64. Both decoder parts, video and audio, are running as built-in DirectShow® Filter under MS Windows®. The decoder supports DirectX® Video Acceleration, DXVA 1.0 and DXVA 2.0 for Vista 32/64. Therefore, HDTV is playable on Celeron processors <1GHz.