Four companies have come together to push a new technology called Video and Voice over Internet Protocol, which allows videoconference on demand.
The companies include Freescale Semiconductor Inc., Radvision, Trinity Convergence and Metrowerks.
Dramatizing how the technology will benefit the end user, the firms offer the follow description. “Imagine calling a friend and seeing them on your slim Wi-Fi-over-IP handheld, then zooming in for a better visual experience and starting a videoconference on demand. Now switch the conference to your TV set to share with a larger group of friends or colleagues in the room.”
Freescale said it will deliver the V2IP solution based on its i.MX21 multimedia applications processor, which will feature video encode and decode hardware speed performance.
The four companies will collaborate to design, port and optimize the solution using the Linux operating system, said Freescale.
The video and audio features include H.263 and MPEG4 video, JPEG imaging, audio codecs, mirroring, zooming, rotation and more.
“With this platform, our customers can create and launch a new V2IP wired or wireless device in just a few months,” said Thierry Cammal, Freescale’s general manager of the wireless and mobile system group in Europe.<p
