Image Matters, intoPIX, MikroM and Virident collaborate beyond the state of the art. The target is a series of tests on June 7 and 8 2012 in Burbank CA, coordinated by Michael Karagosian of MKPE Consulting, and cinematographers Kommer Kleijn SBC and David Stump ASC, as co-chairs of the SMPTE 21DC Study Group for Higher Frame Rates.
These tests will be conducted in collaboration with studios and the creative community. They will measure the minimum JPEG 2000 codestream bit rate requested by high frame rate content to reach the visually lossless quality demanded by digital cinema applications.
The experimental equipment set will enable playback of JPEG 2000 codestream bit rate higher than 1 Gbps (i.e. more than 4 times the current DCI specification). The decoded 2K images will be transmitted to a single projector at a frame rate of up to 120 fps (i.e. 60 fpe for Stereoscopic 3D content).
In order to speed up the test process and to allow the easy production of multiple encoding flavours, the equipment set will also be capable of encoding high frame rate content from uncompressed files in near real-time.
The assembled equipment will consist of one server incorporating 4 Virident FlashMAX boards and one intoPIX JPEG 2000 PRISTINE-P4 board. The PRISTINE will playback the decoded codestream on four 3G SDI links to the MikroM IMB inserted into the projector. The MikroM’s IMB will receive the four 3G-SDI links and pass the uncompressed image data directly to the projector backplane. Image Matters will insure project coordination and integration.
The integration has enough headroom to allow, on request, multiple equipments to be combined to achieve higher bit rates and/or higher frame rates.
Storage
- Four 1.4 TB Virident FlashMAX MLC cards:
- total capacity of 5.6TB
- total read bandwidth of 5.2 GB/s
- total write bandwidth of 2.2GB/s on XFS file system.
- Each Virident card has:
- a half height and half length form factor
- a PCIe x8 Gen1 bus • power consumption of 25 W
- a sustainable random read of 1,3 GB/s
JPEG 2000 Encoding / Decoding
One intoPIX PRISTINE P4 board
- 2K & 4K JPEG2000 decoder FPGA IP-cores
- high frame rates capacity: up to 120 Fps
- high bitrate capacity: up to 1 Gbps
- four 3G-SDI outputs
- one Genlock input
Integrated Media Block
One MikroM Integrated MediaBlock MVC 201
- four 3G-SDI input
- Formatting and pass through of uncompressed image data
- Up to 120 2K fps
About intoPIX
intoPIX is a leading supplier of image compression technology to audiovisual equipment manufacturers. We are passionate about offering people a higher quality image experience and have developed FPGA IP cores that enable leading edge JPEG 2000 image compression, security and hardware enforcement. Achieving a major breakthrough in digital cinema, intoPIX has achieved a leading position in the professional image compression industry based on the JPEG 2000 standard. More information on our company, customers and products can be found on www.intopix.com
Interested in HFR technology? Contact Gael Rouvroy, intoPIX C.T.O. – g.rouvroy@intopix.com -
