Digital Video Engineering

Cardinal Peak has exceptionally deep expertise in digital video engineering and multimedia systems. Our founders have worked in the digital video industry for many years, introducing some of the industry's first real-time MPEG-2 encoders and multiplexers. One of our founders, Mike Perkins, was a member of the MPEG-2 committee at the time that standard was being drafted.

Our design expertise has been leveraged to help companies in the security, law enforcement, enterprise video and broadcast entertainment industries bring products to market that differentiate them from their competitors. We are very experienced in utilizing the appropriate mix of video compression algorithms and communications protocols to achieve maximum performance under constrained hardware or networking conditions.

Digital Video

Our consultants' expertise encompasses:

  • Codecs: H.264, H.263, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, JPEG, Windows Media, WMV, VC-1, Motion Imagery
  • System layers: DVD, MPEG-2 Transport Streams, MPEG-2 Program Streams, MPEG-4 Systems, MPEG-2 PSI, DVB SI
  • Protocols: RTP, RTSP, RTCP, ISMA
  • Products: Head-end equipment, video management systems, home entertainment systems, PVR, DVR, NVR, digital video recorders, IP cameras, set-top box, DVB Simulcrypt, OCAP development

Contact us to learn more about our digital video engineering consulting services.

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My camera (an Olympus SP-570UZ) allows me to optionally record a four-second audio clip with each photo I take. I haven’t used this feature much, because I typically upload my photos to Flickr, and there’s been no good way to associate the audio with the video. Ideally, I would like an audio player to appear [...]

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"We found Cardinal Peak's team to be very knowledgeable about embedded video delivery systems. Their ability to deliver working solutions on time, combined with excellent project management skills, helped bring success not only to the product they worked on directly, but also to other projects that were outside of their scope."

Ralph Schmitt, Vice President Product Marketing & Engineering, Kustom Signals