The Accelera 3000 Advanced Video Encoder (AVE) from Aspex Semiconductor is an optional plug-in board for StreamZHD and StreamZ encoding systems and Digital Rapids XCoder transcoding nodes that accelerates MPEG-2 HD and SD video encoding and transcoding with the MainConcept codec. Particularly advantageous for the encoding and transcoding demands of high definition content, the addition of the Accelera AVE to StreamZHD systems also provides the ultimate combination of real-time HD format support and quality for live HD encoding.

	Significantly accelerates transcoding to MPEG-2 from other digital media formats - more than 2x faster than real time depending on frame formats and settings (high quality settings benefit most from acceleration)
	Increases simultaneous encoding abilities by taking most intensive part of MPEG-2 encoding load off system CPUs, further boosting productivity
	Enables real-time live MPEG-2 encoding of HD content up to 1920x1080@30fps on systems with dual Xeon 3.6 processors, and higher quality settings for real-time live encoding on systems that can already encode 1920x1080@30fps (such as systems with two or more dual-core Xeon processors)
	Enables higher quality settings and more concurrent MPEG-2 encodes (two concurrent at maximum quality level, four concurrent at default DVD encoding settings (for real-time live SD encoding with standard StreamZ configuration
	Use of two Accelera AVE boards in a system provides further acceleration
	Works transparently in the background - no operational changes to how you use the Stream Software