Montreal, January 14, 2008.

NorPix announces support for the high-performance CineForm codec, now offered in both its StreamPix image acquisition software and the Hermes API. The CineForm codec provides high compression in real-time during live acquisition of image streams, with no degradation of Bayer pattern. The result is movie-quality compression with high quality color rendering on decompression for playback.

• High compression in real-time with high quality playback.
• Codec supports 8-, 10- and 12-bits-per-pixel color depth.
• Configurable for Bayer pattern, encoder quality, white balance, curve correction.
• Compressed images stored in a standard AVI movie file.

The CineForm codec can use all available CPU core, loading up to 100% if needed. Typical pixel processing is up to 90 megapixels per second on a dual-core 2.4 GHz machine. Performance benchmarks for StreamPix doing real-time streaming to an AVI file, with 15:1 compression and encoder quality set to FilmScan1, include:

• 640x480 8-bit color, 150 fps, 95% cpu load (Intel dual-core T7400)
• 640x480 12-bit color, 140 fps, 44% cpu load (Intel quad-core Q6600)
• 1920x1080 8-bit color, 31 fps, 30% cpu load (Intel quad-core Q6600)
• 1920 x1080 12-bit color, 29 fps, 85% cpu load (Intel quad-core Q6600)

NorPix is a leading developer of digital video recording software for acquiring live video directly to hard disk or RAM. User applications of NorPix products include motion analysis, image archiving, flow analysis, medical imaging and web inspection.

For more information about CineForm and their compression-based acquisition and post-production workflows visit their website at www.cineform.com.

Contact details
NorPix, Inc.
1751 Richardson, Suite 6117
Montreal, Canada
H3K 1G6
Email: . or call Luc Nocente at (514) 907-1588.