Fluendo awarded SPIRIT Open Call 2 grant: Introducing AIVATAR
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Remote Desktop Coding Tools
A codec built for remote desktop streaming
A specialized video codec for desktop remoting with reduced operational costs and improved user experience while remaining backward compatible with existing codecs and infrastructure.
Superior remote desktop experience at lower costs
Enhance quality of experience
Deliver high-resolution and -quality video over any network, regardless of bandwidth constraints.
Cost & carbon reduction
Reduce operational costs for streaming and encoding with an energy-efficient, greener codec.
Legal & technical compliance
A business-ready solution with patent reporting and licensing, fully compatible with your tech stack and infrastructure.
Enhance quality of experience
Deliver high-resolution and -quality video over any network, regardless of bandwidth constraints.
Cost & carbon reduction
Reduce operational costs for streaming and encoding with an energy-efficient, greener codec.
Legal & technical compliance
A business-ready solution with patent reporting and licensing, fully compatible with your tech stack and infrastructure.
The competitive edge in remote desktop streaming
Remote Desktop Coding Tools (RDCT) reduces operational costs while improving user experiences. The codec empowers service providers with a more competitive and profitable offering while remaining backward compatible with existing codecs and infrastructure.
It integrates state-of-the-art coding tools and patent management with a streamlined API, ensuring risk-free integration with existing remote desktop protocols while optimizing performance for service providers and end users.
The competitive edge in remote desktop streaming
Remote Desktop Coding Tools (RDCT) reduces operational costs while improving user experiences. The codec empowers service providers with a more competitive and profitable offering while remaining backward compatible with existing codecs and infrastructure.
It integrates state-of-the-art coding tools and patent management with a streamlined API, ensuring risk-free integration with existing remote desktop protocols while optimizing performance for service providers and end users.
FEATURES
Next-generation video with broad compatibility
H.264 base codec
Capability to encode YUV 4:2:0 sequences into H.264 bitstreams, ensuring compatibility with industry standards.
H.264 base codec
Capability to encode YUV 4:2:0 sequences into H.264 bitstreams, ensuring compatibility with industry standards.
Enhancement layer with LCEVC
Implements the enhancement layer using MPEG-5 Part 2 LCEVC, improving compression efficiency while reducing the encoding and decoding complexity of the base codec. Designed to be codec-agnostic, LCEVC enhances base codecs without modification, integrating with existing workflows and ensuring future-proof adaptability.
Enhancement layer with LCEVC
Implements the enhancement layer using MPEG-5 Part 2 LCEVC, improving compression efficiency while reducing the encoding and decoding complexity of the base codec. Designed to be codec-agnostic, LCEVC enhances base codecs without modification, integrating with existing workflows and ensuring future-proof adaptability.
Desktop content tunning
Optimizes encoding parameters to achieve a better quality-to-bitrate ratio in desktop remoting scenarios compared to other general-purpose codecs.
Desktop content tunning
Optimizes encoding parameters to achieve a better quality-to-bitrate ratio in desktop remoting scenarios compared to other general-purpose codecs.
Unified API
Encapsulates all specialised coding tools, providing an intuitive, high-level interface for simplified integration.
Unified API
Encapsulates all specialised coding tools, providing an intuitive, high-level interface for simplified integration.
GStreamer integration
Implements the RDCT encoder and decoder as GStreamer plugins, ensuring compatibility with existing multimedia frameworks and the Fluendo Codec Pack.
GStreamer integration
Implements the RDCT encoder and decoder as GStreamer plugins, ensuring compatibility with existing multimedia frameworks and the Fluendo Codec Pack.
our use cases
Concepts with real-world potential
These use cases present conceptual examples of how our ideas and technologies could address real-world industry challenges.
Remote Desktop Coding Tools for Daas & VDI | AI video Use Case
DaaS & VDI platforms must continually optimize for performance, scalability, and user experience. These platforms face increasing challenges due to high-resolution content delivery, fluctuating network conditions, and the growing demand for cost-effective scalability.
Standard video codecs often present trade-offs between visual fidelity and bandwidth consumption or processing load. These trade-offs become more pronounced at scale, directly affecting infrastructure costs, session density, and quality of service. Remote Desktop Coding Tools (RDCT), a hybrid solution based on H.264 enhanced with MPEG-5 LCEVC and desktop domain coding optimizations (including desktop content entropy tuning, region-of-interest coding, and improved color management), would offer a flexible and integrable response to these challenges.
The use of RDCT across the DaaS and VDI value chain would enable vendors and integrators to meet enterprise demands for performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency without requiring significant infrastructure overhauls.
ROI based enhancements | AI video Use Case
Video encoders used in DaaS & VDI, even those with advanced Screen Content Coding (SCC) tools, must rely on computationally expensive intra- and inter-frame analysis of the video stream to understand the content’s complexity and motion, which consumes a significant amount of server-side CPU/GPU resources. This process is fundamentally inefficient for remote desktops because the encoder is working to deduce information that the virtualized operating system already knows intrinsically. This redundancy creates a direct and costly trade-off between visual quality and server density.
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