Haivision announces its "next-generation" H.264 video encoding platform, the Makito X Series. Haivision says the Makito X Series offers a 6X increase in encoding power to deliver HD video using half of the bandwidth of comparable encoders.

The Makito X2, a dual channel low-latency HD-SDI H.264 encoder, is the first Haivision product to incorporate the company's new X Series technology. It can encode up to 12 HD sources (up to 1080p 60Hz) to H.264 within a 1RU of rack space. Supporting High Profile H.264 video compression, the Makito X2 specs say its gets up to 2X the picture quality while maintaining the Makito's 55-millisecond encoding latency.

Haivision say the picture quality of the Makito X2 streams are on par with broadcast-quality encoders at higher bitrates. Makito X2 supports multiple bitrate (MBR) streaming with up to four renditions of each input from 32 Kbps to 25 Mbps at full 1080p 60Hz.

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