Key Features

With Stradis standard definition decoders, your MPEG video application can offer:

• Continuous, seamless back-to-back playback of multiple MPEG streams (which may be in different formats: Transport, Program, System or Elementary streams)
• Frame-accurate, synchronized playback across multiple decoders
• High-speed, random access and display of any I-Frame in an MPEG file for variable speed reverse and forward play, plus seamless switching to any I-frame of another stream
• Complete control over all decoder functions via the Stradis Application Program Interface (API) for Windows. Applications access the API with a C-style interface using the __stdcall calling convention

Features for MPEG Decoding and Output

• Decodes all MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 stream types and produces NTSC or PAL output
• Still picture display from bit-map files with transition effects and simultaneous audio playback for "slide shows"
• True-color graphics over video or still pictures with keying and 64 levels of blending and shading
• Digital control of video saturation, brightness, contrast, gamma and hue
• Hardware Audio/Video synchronization
• Genlock synchronizes decoder output to external reference H-sync, V-sync and chroma burst (not available on SDM230)
• Two balanced analog audio outputs with line-levels up to 28 dBm (not available on SDM230)
• Vertical Interval Time Code (VITC) based on stream time codes or synthesized by the API
• Wave file playback and raw PCM audio playback
• Virtual streams based on a single, repeated I-Frame that can be seamlessly played back-to-back with other MPEG streams
• Video image can be displayed on the computer's VGA monitor, with scan-rate and color conversion

Additional Features of the SDM280ex

• Serial Digital Interface (SMPTE 259M-C) video output plus composite video output
• One AES3 digital audio output
• IEC 61937 compressed digital audio output provides a digital output stream compatible with an external Dolby Digital® (AC-3 & ATSC A/52)
• SMPTE 302M-1998 support for uncompressed digital audio in the Transport, Program, and System streams

Additional Features of the SDM290ex

• Serial Digital Interface (SMPTE 259M-C) video output with up to 8 channels of embedded audio, plus composite video output
• Two AES3 digital audio outputs
• Four balanced analog audio outputs with line-levels up to 28 dBm
• Machine Control via remote connector (9-Pin, RS-422A) can be configured as either "Controller" or "Device"
• Linear Time Code (LTC) output