Elecard
Elecard is a technology company that provides software products for video and audio encoding, decoding, processing, receiving and transmission.
Its line of products includes commercial and professional encoders and decoders for most video and audio standards, including H.264 video compression.
Elecard, founded in 1988, has its headquarters in Tomsk, Russia, and an office in Foster City, California.
Organizational structure and customers
Group Divisions
- Software codecs and SDK’s
- End-user software
- Professional video analyzers
- DVB/IPTV/WebTV servers
- Hardware designs for consumer market
Elecard offices
- Tomsk – Headquarters
- Moscow
- San Francisco
Notable customers and partners
- Intel Corporation
- Netflix
- Huawei
- Cisco Systems
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- ERICSSON
- Siemens Schweiz AG
- The Walt Disney Company
- FranceTV
- Aupera Technologies Inc.
- Ostankino Telecom
- ReadyTV
- MTS
- Telemedia LTD
- Telefonica
- SIM International
- Sisvel
- Swisscom
Products
Supported formats
Video formats
| Formats | Decoding | Encoding |
| MPEG–1 Video | + | + |
| MPEG–2 Video All profiles/levels up to HighProfile/HighLevel are supported excluding scalability extensions | + | + |
| MPEG–4 Video p. 10, aka H.264/AVC Baseline, Main, High, and High422 profiles supported up to 5.1 Level | + | + |
| DV 25 | + | + |
| DV 50 | + | - |
| DV 100 | + | - |
| H.264\HEVC | + | + |
Audio formats
Multiplexing / Demultiplexing
| Formats | MPEG-1 System Stream | MPEG-2 Program Stream | MPEG-2 Transport Stream , including AVCHD | MP4 ISO compatible files | MKV | MXF |
| MPEG–1 Video | + | - | - | - | - | - |
| MPEG–2 Video | + | + | + | + | + | + |
| MPEG–4 Video p. 2 / H.263 | - | - | - | + | + | - |
| MPEG–4 Video p. 10, aka H.264/AVC | - | + | + | + | + | + |
| H.265/HEVC | - | + | + | + | + | - |
| AV1 | - | - | - | - | + | - |
| MPEG–1/2 audio | + | + | + | + | + | - |
| MPEG-4 Audio LATM AAC | - | + | + | + | + | - |
| LPCM | - | + | + | + | + | + |
| Dolby Digital audio | - | + | + | + | + | - |
Awards
According to the results of 2010 MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Video Codec Comparison carried out through Moscow State University Compression Project, Elecard AVC Encoder demonstrated the fastest encoding speed and high picture quality, ranking 5th in the overall codecs comparison results. However, next year, in the same comparison of 2011, Elecard AVC Encoder made it to the third place behind x264 and DivX Plus HD in the overall rating of software video codecs.Elecard was recognized as the “Russian Innovation Leader” at the "New Electronics in Russia" forum in 2009.