IP video board for eyevis netpix

If there's a conundrum that is probably exercising many users, it's the huge number of video sources that need to be managed, the bewildering array of output display devices – and how to establish an appropriate connection between sources and displays. They're probably making their way to the eyevis stand at ISE, where the company is demonstrating its new IP Streaming Decoder Board for its netpix NPX3x00 controller series.

The IP Streaming Decoder Board offers hardware decoding of universal streaming video signals in real-time with a very low latency. Each Streaming Decoder card can decode up to 16 CIF streams or up to 8 D1 streams. Through a new hardware decoding architecture, each channel can simultaneously decode different codec formats. This flexibility allows large visualisation systems, says the company, supporting display grids of up to 64 outputs and a virtually unlimited number of inputs.

eyevis says that the key features of the new board also include the ability to select different codecs for each channel; simultaneous display of up to 128 streams in real time; low decoding latency; and scaleability.

The netpix NPX3x00 controller is a graphics controller for large screen systems. With this controller, it is possible to connect and control a matrix of different displays (consisting of rear projection cubes, LCD monitors, plasma monitors or projectors). A number of different sources (RGB, DVI, Video, LAN) can be connected to this controller and displayed on a large screen system. The new IP Streaming Decoder Board now makes it possible to connect IP video sources directly to the controller