PRNewswire: Linux Now Available for Vela's CineView MPEG Decoders

"Responding to the growing popularity of the Linux operating system for its customers' applications, Vela L.P. today announced that it is now shipping its MPEG-2 video decoding solutions with Linux drivers."

"'Vela is very attentive to the feedback we get from our users, and Linux drivers are a feature that many users have asked for,' said Sunil Arora, Vice President and General Manager of Vela's OEM Products Division."

"The new Linux MPEG-2 decoder drivers will give additional functionality to Vela's CineView, CineView Pro, and CineView Pro LE family of MPEG-2 decoders. Later this year Vela also plans to add Linux support for its Argus encoding systems. These popular video compression and decompression solutions are used in ad insertion, cable headends, video-on-demand, IP multicasting, and many other digital video applications requiring broadcast-quality 4:2:2 or 4:2:0 encoding and decoding."

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