The Matrox M264 family of H.264 hardware codec cards is expanding with the new M264 S4. According to the company, it is the world’s only four-channel 4Kp60 codec card aimed for PC-based broadcast contribution, production or distribution systems. In addition, it provides Sony XAVC and Panasonic AVC-ULTRA presets.

The device is able to encoding and decoding up to four 4Kp50/60 streams of XAVC 4K Intra Class 300/480, XAVC 4K Long 4:2:2, or AVC-ULTRA in real-time with zero CPU usage. The card can also encode/decode up to four streams of 4Kp60 at 4:2:2 10-bit, 40 streams of HD Long GOP at 4:2:2 10-bit or 64 streams of HD at 4:2:0 8-bit.

The codec card is compatible with the Matrox DSK SDK, a solution that has processing modules such us file input/output (I/O), software codecs and CPU effects. The M264 family of codec cards also provides plug-ins for H.264 transcode acceleration into the FFMPEG framework.

The Matrox M264 S4 codec card will be available in Q3 2019.